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# [[able|Able]] to be [[accomplish]]ed, [[achieve]]d, or [[obtain]]ed.
#: {{antonyms|en|unaccomplishable|unachievable|unattainable|unobtainable}}
#* {{RQ:Melville Moby-Dick|chapter=A Squeeze of the Hand|page=464|passage=For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of '''attainable''' felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Jonah Engel Bromwich|author2=Vanessa Friedman|authorlink2=Vanessa Friedman|author3=Matthew Schneier|title=Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/fashion/kate-spade-dead.html|archiveurl=<!--cannot be archived at Archive.org-->|archivedate=|newspaper={{w|The New York Times}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher={{w|The New York Times Company}}|date=5 June 2018|issn=0362-4331|oclc=971436363|passage=Her [{{w|Kate Spade}}'s] name became a shorthand for the cute, clever bags that were an instant hit with cosmopolitan women in the early stages of their careers and, later, young girls – status symbols of a more '''attainable''', all-American sort than a Fendi clutch or Chanel bag.}}
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