The phrase "attaining something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of achieving or reaching a goal, objective, or desired outcome.
Example: "After years of hard work and dedication, she finally felt a sense of fulfillment in attaining something she had always dreamed of."
Alternatives: "achieving something" or "reaching something".
"The hope of attaining something better prevents the migrants from thinking of failure".
The lives of certain key figures unfold across the whole arc of the book, attaining something approaching the weight of fiction.
He has been referred to as the Tropical Mourinho and is now on the cusp of attaining something significant in South American soccer, putting Venezuela within striking distance of a World Cup spot.
You might just have imagined him, a decade on, as one of Britain's most influential pop stars, but you would have got long odds indeed on him ever attaining something like national treasure status, which he also appears to have done: performing the anthem of the England World Cup team, palling around with Prince Harry, appearing on Newsnight to discuss Barack Obama's election.
If we discover that the cost of attaining something prized is too high, we prize it less (reduce or eliminate our tendency to go after it).
Genre is staged in the sense there are usually steps to constructing meaning, goal-oriented as these steps are organised with the aim of attaining something and social because genre is built within an interaction with others (Martin and Rose 2008; Rose and Martin 2012).
"Let children attain something.
If you attained something then you were going to be first".
"I was trying to attain something, but too much thought was going into it.
It was then that secular autobiographies — we call them memoirs — first attained something like their contemporary prominence.
And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.
