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The phrase "achieving the thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the accomplishment of a specific goal or task, though "the thing" may be vague without context.
Example: "After months of hard work, we finally succeeded in achieving the thing we set out to do."
Alternatives: "reaching the goal" or "accomplishing the task".
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As useful as it can be to want something badly, that same intense emotion can get in the way of achieving the thing you want.
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I wouldn't mind achieving the things he achieved".
I was lucky enough not to encounter the kind of sexism that was a barrier to me achieving the things I wanted to achieve".
It is his sense of worth, his sense that nothing can prevent him from achieving the things he set out to do that makes victory over Aldo plausible.
I can't see how being HIV positive has denied me from achieving the things that I've wanted to do.
I feel as if it were a mountain to climb, and I've toiled up the mountain and achieved the thing and then I'm coming down the other side and it's behind me, and it's nothing.
"Most of them have not achieved the things they have wanted.
I still want to achieve the things I wanted to achieve before I was diagnosed, but I go about achieving these in a different way.
TMcC: I'm just doing what I think the novel should do, and trying to achieve the things the novels I most admire achieved.
I do want one, but I wouldn't have achieved the things I've achieved if I'd had a relationship.
The fact is that that Britain just cannot achieve the things we want to achieve in the world unless we work with the world's superpower.
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