attempt

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This game ended with Lauren Betts blocking Madison Booker’s layup attempt with 18 seconds remaining and Texas trailing by just three.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

And at this weekend’s Final Four, Hurley will attempt to do something that no program has managed since the heyday of John Wooden’s UCLA: Win three championships in four years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

This appeared to be an attempt by the ships to avoid being targeted by Iran.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Just as I begin to contemplate how much worse the smell has to get before I attempt to drag my broken body out of this hole, the opossum’s ear moves.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz