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arrive at en · VERB
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To reach (a destination)
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(idiomatic) To reach (an objective or conclusion)
The purpose of this technique was not to satisfy any personal dislike, still less to arrive at the truth, but to achieve a practical object. Lenin himself confirmed this ('blurted it out', as he would have said of anyone else) on an occasion in 1907.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 520:
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