hit a target in English

achieve what one is attempting, reach one's goal; hit a bullseye, strike what one is aiming at

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1. During a gunnery practice session in June 1942, he hit a target drogue with 24 of the allotted 50 rounds of machine-gun fire, a feat that was considered difficult to achieve.

2. For that, they devised the Cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator that uses a constant magnetic field to hold charged particles as they move faster and faster in a circular spiral pattern. Eventually, they hit a target, which results in secondary particles for physicists to study.

3. It's so rare in American culture, there's so little that's vocational about it anymore, to look at what doggedness looks like with this level of exactitude, what it means to align your body posture for three hours in order to hit a target, pursuing a kind of excellence in obscurity.