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# [[able|Able]] to be [[accomplish]]ed, [[achieve]]d, or [[obtain]]ed.
#: {{antonyms|en|unaccomplishable|unachievable|unattainable|unobtainable}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[William Guthrie]|authorlink=William Guthrie (historian)|chapter=Book II|title=The Friends. A Sentimental History: Describing Love as a Virtue, as well as a Passion. In Two Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. Waller,{{nb...|opposite Fetter-Lane in Fleet-street.}}|year=1754|volume=I|page=55|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015013744084&view=1up&seq=87|oclc=723452225|passage=He even neglected to open his Apprehenſions to ''Livia'', leſt ſhe ſhould be ſo much alarmed, as to be upon her Guard, and thereby render the Enjoyment of his Pleaſures more ſeldom '''attainable'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Art. 40. ''Military Observations Respecting Ireland, Its Attack and Defence'',{{nb...|and to Shew that at All Events Property should be Armed to Resist Plunder and Anarchy. Interspersed with Some Political Remarks. 8vo. pp. 103. 2s. 6d.}} Dublin. 1804. [book review]|journal=[[w:Monthly Review (London)|The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged]]|location=London|publisher=Printed by [[w:Andrew Strahan|Strahan]] and Preston,{{nb...|Printers-Street}}; and sold by T[homas] Becket,{{nb...|bookseller, in Pall Mall.}}|month=August|year=1804|volume=XLIV|page=434|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/monthlyreview55grifgoog/page/n445/mode/1up|oclc=901376714|passage=He [...] invites Britain to treat her sister island with kindness and confidence. He deems peace '''attainable''', and thinks that the interests of the empire require that it should be sought.}}
#* {{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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# Something that can be [[attain]]ed.
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