Word Finder - success

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The achievement of one's aim or goal.

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His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

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Financial profitability.

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Don't let success go to your head.

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One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.

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Scholastically, he was a success.

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The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect or fame.

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She is country music's most recent success.

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Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.

Each success has some failure along the way.

Other people say they have no success in making Miss Keller "hear" them.

Success is now defined by creating, not destroying.

Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Saturday ended with one success in four tries, and a sizeable telephone bill.

They had so much success with so little.

A major success helped raise our spirits.

We had more nonevents like uninhabited places than success but some were spectacular.

What is remarkable in her career is already accomplished, and whatever she may do in the future will be but a relatively slight addition to the success which distinguishes her now.

I'm going to make this dairy a success if it kills me.

Indeed, I feel that the success is hers more than mine; for she is my constant inspiration....

Whether or not their life together was a success had little to do with wealth or lack of it.

The success of the restaurant rested more on out-of-date memories than the current excellence of its bill of fare.

You could learn from their success and you could learn from their failure.

If love alone was a measurement of success, the future of the three had a small measure hope.

In the wake of its success, came more tears.

The downside of the success was unwanted publicity.

The oldest of the healers has tried to repair her without success, Darkyn added.

In these years the fear came many times to Miss Sullivan lest the success of the child was to cease with childhood.

I desire to speak impartially on this point, and as one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements.

Our success with missing persons continued to grow.

That he came from the mortal world rather than the Immortal one had left a taint on him that no amount of success could get rid of.

The success of a military action depends not on them, but on the man in the ranks who shouts, 'We are lost!' or who shouts, 'Hurrah!'

Often seeing the success she had with young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not love her.

What is needed for success in warfare?

The apparatus has been used with complete success at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, and at Melbourne, Sydney and Cordoba.

David and Cynthia Dean had experienced little success in trying to secure a more formal arrangement for long term custody of Martha, managing only undocumented assignment as temporary foster parents.

The more I have a personal vested interest in your success, the better.

Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt.

Dean introduced himself to the large gathering in the parlor, trying without success to remember names.

While Betsy loved her position, she was far more enchanted with our success and would adopt it as a full time venture in a minute.

The dinner party Evelyn threw to celebrate Kiera's first commissioned piece of art had been a success, as was expected.

That readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have a right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness, and success which your intellect, military talent, and the courage of the troops you command justify us in expecting.

Our trip was definitely a success.

The faces all expressed animation and apprehension, but it seemed to Pierre that the cause of the excitement shown in some of these faces lay chiefly in questions of personal success; his mind, however, was occupied by the different expression he saw on other faces--an expression that spoke not of personal matters but of the universal questions of life and death.

As to the theaters for the entertainment of the people and the troops, these did not meet with success either.

While we refrained from tracking our results, when we learned through public media of a success, we celebrated.

To him the club entrusted the arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagration, for few men knew so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete.

It was the sequel to his complacent reflections on his success in Petersburg.

Perhaps enough of the euphoria of the prior day's success remained that, surprisingly, a reluctant agreement was reached.

There was neither a message nor, I realized, success with our endeavor.

Attempts have been made to apply electricity to agriculture on a commercial scale, but the exact measure of success attained remains somewhat doubtful.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad and does me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

The success of the trick that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way.

Under cover of obtaining help of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and which attracted him.

His look radiated success.

Dean and Fred pretended, without success, to not have heard what Edith was saying while she blushed.

The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive.

All historians agree that the external activity of states and nations in their conflicts with one another is expressed in wars, and that as a direct result of greater or less success in war the political strength of states and nations increases or decreases.

Howie was unable to remain sleeping long enough for any success on his last attempt.