brief attempt
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A brief attempt at a career in the legal profession was cut short after he failed his first year at law school.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
After a brief attempt to revive the firm, Mr. Mashinsky resigned in September.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
There was a brief attempt by Alston supporters to keep the chair, but it became moot.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
After a brief attempt at becoming a professional Australian rules football player in 1988, he went to train at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide and made his first-class debut in 1991.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
Or, a brief attempt to demonstrate, that the Newtonian system is perfectly agreeable to the notions of the wisest ancients: and that mathematical principles are the only sure ones.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
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