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View definitions for attempted

attempted

adjective as in undertaken

adjective as in ventured

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After multiple attempts to reach city officials and urge them not to delete the records we sought, Ivey said she was working on the request.

After VOSD’s story published, the city attorney’s office went back through its records and found past discussions about an attempt to repeal that section of the municipal code.

County Supervisor Kristin Gaspar is running against Ikhrata and SANDAG in general, and their attempts to deprioritize highway spending in favor of transit specifically.

Likewise, since every person’s ballot has a unique bar code, the system catches any attempt to vote twice by requesting additional ballots.

Another hour into his attempt to get a test, Price realized that he just couldn’t wait any longer.

It was the year that Kim Kardashian attempted to break the Internet with hers.

The risk to his life was great enough that he had to flee Munich when Hitler attempted to seize power in November 1923.

After he allegedly unloaded on the cops, Brinsley attempted to make a getaway to a nearby subway.

As a cafe in Sydney, Australia came under siege by a hostage-taking gunman on Monday, those nearby attempted to flee the area.

That statistic is based on a survey that includes attempted forced kissing as sexual assault.

Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.

It was one day when a student from the Stuttgardt conservatory attempted to play the Sonata Appassionata.

One little girl attempted to smell at the trees in a drawing and pretended to feed some pictorial dogs.

Joseph, with his liberal ideas, had attempted to free the people from clerical thraldom.

None the less it is the most nearly true of all the broad generalizations that can be attempted in regard to mankind.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to attempted, such as: begun, initiated, launched, started, tackled, and tried.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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