attempted
Example Sentences
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In their updates on Pike's condition after the attempted execution, her team had previously said she was awake and speaking, and experiencing anger and confusion.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Set at a boarding school for vampires, it attempted to address classism in the species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Guinea-Bissau, a Portuguese-speaking country wedged between Senegal and Guinea, has experienced five coups and numerous attempted putsches since independence from Portugal in 1974.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The guest list was crafted to represent Jaguar’s attempted leap from being a favored car of older drivers to being considered by the fashionable, cosmopolitan new-money set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was hard to win something you’d never attempted, but I wasn’t going to tell him that.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
