brief attempt

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It was the last time, despite Campbell's brief attempt, that Celtic and Rangers stars played in the same team.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2023

There was a brief attempt by Alston supporters to keep the chair, but it became moot.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2022

There was a brief attempt, in the 1960s during the second Vatican council, at reevaluation – and then slam!

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2018

At the end of her biography, O’Toole makes a brief attempt to rescue Wilson from what the great British historian E. P. Thompson once called the “enormous condescension of posterity.”

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018

Here ends this brief attempt at a diary.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Dickens, Mamie