attempt
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Qatar is a full mediating partner, along with Pakistan, in the diplomatic attempt to restart talks.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
They swept to victory last June, after the disgraced former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was impeached for a bizarre six-hour attempt to declare martial law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
It is also a strategic attempt by Nvidia to get programmers to build new tech products on their hardware, which will boost demand for data centre GPUs, he said.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Harel cleared 6-9 on his third attempt to stay alive but still trailed Jay Woodson of American Canyon on misses until the bar was raised to 6-11.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Jack Liu’s research helped inform a government intervention with the five thousand villagers living in the reserve areas in an attempt to find a win-win solution to this problem.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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