accomplishing

verb

present participle of accomplish
as in achieving
to carry through (as a process) to completion you've accomplished your assigned task with your usual efficiency

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Recent Examples of accomplishing Brown said accomplishing those goals would require working with members of Congress as well as local and state officials. — Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 Following an orderly wind-down, UNRWA itself will neither be essential nor necessary to accomplishing the work that lies ahead in Gaza. — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Point Jokic was similarly interested in accomplishing that goal. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026 For a franchise that has experienced the playoffs in consecutive seasons five times in its 150-year history, getting there back-to-back years is an accomplishment, even with the Cubs not accomplishing their goal of winning the World Series. — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 Curtis had a difficult time rebuilding the staff at her clubs on the way out of the pandemic — accomplishing that only with the help of comics who promoted her efforts on their podcasts. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026 Achievement is much more useful when the person accomplishing it still likes the life waiting afterward. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 By gradually accomplishing a de-facto annexation of the West Bank, the settlements would require Israeli Jews either to rule over a resentful non-Jewish population of about equal size or to surrender the Jewish identity of their state. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 The three-time Olympic gold medalist celebrated accomplishing the feat, though there was a small caveat. — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accomplishing
  1. achieving
  2. fulfilling
  3. performing
  4. executing
  5. doing
  6. making
  7. implementing
Verb
  • The problem, Snegovaya said, is that achieving military autonomy for Europe and Ukraine is extremely difficult in the short term, and Europe has been slow to develop the necessary capabilities.
    — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
  • And, even before the pandemic, about half of the state’s students were not achieving the state’s learning goals.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of achieving
Verb
  • They’re being asked to consider the most basic questions about meaning, and justice, and leading a fulfilling life.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Our public schools will always play an important role in preparing Maryland’s children for productive and fulfilling lives.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of fulfilling
Verb
  • His view of the rocket came just seconds before the vehicle's stage separation, which was followed immediately by the rocket's main booster performing an engine burn to right its trajectory for landing back at the Cape.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Swedish streamer and content creator Marlon Lundgren Garcia was London Fashion Week’s top-performing talent, accumulating $1 million in EMV for Burberry and H&M combined.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of performing
Verb
  • The next steps include executing on a vendor contract with Site Stream LLC, the city said the contract is currently under final legal review and will be signed soon.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Traditional CPUs excel at sequential computing tasks, such as calculating a massive spreadsheet or running a precise physics simulation, as these often require executing steps in strict order at blazing speeds.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of executing
Verb
  • Any company doing a div-recap is likely taking a forward-looking view that the IPO market will be closed in the short run.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Donaldson’s wife, Eleanor Donaldson, 60, was found to have aided and abetted her husband’s offenses for witnessing the abuse and doing nothing to intervene.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • Dogma25 is an initiative of recent Venice Golden Lion winner May el-Toukhy (Woman Unknown), who will be one of the five directors making films under its rules alongside directors Milad Alami, Annika Berg, Eklöf and Just.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • By the time Lee’s moved on to thanking his dad for not believing him, thereby giving him something to prove, an embarrassed Frances is making a quick run for the exit.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of making
Verb
  • Tonight, the district is pointing to this language that references developing or implementing activities that reference gender identity.
    — Erin Jones, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The contractors who start building this visibility now, ahead of the implementing regulations, will be negotiating from a position of readiness when enforcement begins.
    — Yardley Pohl, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of implementing

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