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attempting
verb as in try, make effort
Example Sentences
He stood still and watched on - rather than attempting to recover his position - as Bologna scored their third goal of the game.
Jones was the mastermind behind South Africa’s ‘blitz’ defence, with tacklers rushing up in defence, attempting to shut down opponents’ time and space.
In 2022 she posted a video in which she claimed that the Biden administration was attempting to cover up the dangers posed by “pathogens” at “U.S.-funded biolabs” in that country—a sort of mild version of claims about secret Ukrainian biological-weapons development that were being circulated at the time by Carlson, QAnon conspiracy theorists, and the Russian state.
A 2019 New York magazine story outlined Gabbard’s longtime family connections to a Hinduism-derived group called Science of Identity, which one source described as a cult and others said is run by an individual who is attempting to use Gabbard to secure influence with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The government is attempting to maintain a neutral stance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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