effort
Example Sentences
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Follow-up efforts will be needed in Iran but shouldn’t be based on an idealized world view.
The incident brought an abrupt end to what had already been a remarkable and risky comeback effort.
From Salon
With genetic data unable to distinguish between them, investigators relied on phone records, surveillance footage, wiretaps and efforts to corroborate their whereabouts and movements, according to Le Parisien.
From BBC
Dr. Wachter has lived through previous efforts to modernize healthcare and has the scar tissue to prove it.
Then he and the small group helping to organize the protest took the effort public.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.