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The phrase "achieve something like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing goals or outcomes that are similar to a desired result but not exactly the same.
Example: "Our aim is to achieve something like a 20% increase in sales over the next quarter."
Alternatives: "attain a result similar to" or "reach an outcome akin to".
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We can go round the world — I honestly believe we can achieve something like golf has.
The rationale would be that only Mr. Holbrooke could somehow achieve something like that.
"I never thought in my career I would achieve something like this," he said.
When you achieve something like that it is in your memory forever.
Maybe it gives everybody else that incentive that they can achieve something like that".
This time even the psychologists - Zack Busner makes a predictable appearance - seem benign, and achieve something like a cure.
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Boswell actively helped to stage the life of Johnson that he knew he was going to write drawing out Johnson in conversation, setting up scenes he thought likely to yield rich returns and thus, at moments, he achieved something like the novelist's power over his materials, being himself an active part of what he was to re-create.
By the end of the night, the party had achieved something like actual holiday gaiety.
But if that happened, its creators would have achieved something like Mr Fanning.
Piau achieved something like perfection in Cleopatra's Piangerò la Sorte Mia, from Giulio Cesare.
After months of self-torment and vacillation, Dr. Jauhar achieves something like peace.
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