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valiant effort



NOUN
old college try
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We should even applaud those who make a valiant effort — especially if they’re in the room with us — because creating art is hard.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2024

“That was a valiant effort on our part,” Miami coach Jim Larranaga said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2024

Despite the valiant effort from otters against climate change, they are not immune to it.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2024

A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2023

I made a valiant effort to win a stuffed whale by pitching a ball at a pyramid of bottles, but never managed to knock down more than two.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson




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