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Cook’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, rejected those allegations, writing Wednesday that her financing applications were aboveboard and made no attempt to mislead lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Flores vehemently disputes this, saying that it was clearly an attempt to discredit him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stepped in last week in an attempt to calm the bond market by announcing bigger buybacks of long-dated U.S. government debt starting next month.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The behaviour may have been an attempt to revive or protect the calf.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Are you sure—” But my next attempt at helping is interrupted by an impatient shout.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Higgins first turned heads in 2019 in the Love Island villa with her attempts to get close to fellow contestant Tommy Fury.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

After two failed attempts, they completed their run in five hours and 30 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Statistics show many more attempts at estate recovery than completions, so this strategy works for a lot of people, whether they do it wittingly or not.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Raised in Puerto Rico by parents with both Boricuan and Cuban heritage, Bermúdez bristles at attempts to divide Latinos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Even better, their well-meaning attempts at matchmaking kept the Sender sisters very well fed.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

The court determined that my friend failed to reschedule a hearing, although he says he has documentation showing that he attempted to do so.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Media weren’t permitted into the event, but I met one critic, Benn Jordan, and watched as he attempted to eavesdrop on the proceedings from a van loaded with electronics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Pike’s lawyers claim that “he is not competent to perform this procedure,” noting that “the only time in the past 13 years he has attempted to place a central line, on Mr. Carruthers, he failed.”

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

During the set, swaths of fans attempted to crawl forward, desperate to be in sight of James Murphy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Rasseem attempted a snort, but the dust in the air made him cough.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

A former chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Council has been convicted of two charges connected to deleting or attempting to delete an email to prevent disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Fuld, a Stanford economics major, is attempting a transition to the business side of a franchise that has virtually no precedent for former players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

If you take advantage of that $0 bill and skip paying the following month, daily interest will keep accumulating, wiping out the interest savings you were attempting to gain.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

The following day, two volunteers were injured while attempting to conduct a burial in Haut-Uele province.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein