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Example sentences for: tried

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Brown has tried to remake The New Yorker as an upscale newsweekly, but its 800,000 paying readers can't match the 4 million that Time offers its advertisers.
A NYT top front piece discusses how newly released documents from the tobacco industry giants make it clearer than ever just how hard the companies tried to market cigarettes--especially mentholated ones--to blacks.
The Enquirer also says Ramsey tried to convince authorities that an intruder had entered the house by lifting a grate outside the basement.
Initially, the high school that most of the victims attended tried to avoid dwelling on the tragedy via such measures as removing from circulation any textbooks with their signatures in them.
Saddam Hussein would still be in Kuwait if we had tried to rely on sanctions.