Words similar to tried

Example sentences for: tried

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It's hard to appreciate today just how novel both Mundell's statement of the issues and the way he tried to resolve them were at the time.
4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that "if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case."
who never tried to see their world in hisor how he'd bled the neon of its light.Just as he frightened the dolorous traditionand scatted new echoes from the mossy wells,we still fall short of his ideal republicwhere we won't have to buy appliances.
The British playwright co-wrote the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love , and over the past few months a number of my friends have tried to excite my interest in the movie by invoking this fact.
Journalists tried to enjoy Zuckerman's egomaniacal self-destruction but were restrained by contempt for Fallows' sanctimony.