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Discover LudwigThe phrase "aborted attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an effort or endeavor that was started but then stopped or terminated before completion.
Example: "The team made an aborted attempt to launch the new product due to unforeseen technical issues."
Alternatives: "failed attempt" or "unsuccessful effort".
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Instead I made an aborted attempt to buy groceries.
The decision followed an aborted attempt to sell the unit to Prudential of Britain.
Retirement and an aborted attempt to make the '96 Olympic team followed.
There was the aborted attempt to ban the niqab from parliament last year and Abbott's "Team Australia" rhetoric towards migrants.
(There was an aborted attempt to make the film in 1988 with Nicol Williamson and Rick Schroder).
I AM still trying to repress memories of my own aborted attempt to use the Internet as a broadcast medium.
These four military men, ruled the court, were involved in an aborted attempt to kill Cáceres on 5 February 2016.
There is even talk that Mohammad Yunus, a famed microfinancier, might throw his hat back in the ring, after an aborted attempt to launch a party last year.
Following another aborted attempt at college, he took an internship at Harper's Magazine and embarked on a successful career as a writer and editor.
It would come after last year's aborted attempt by AT&T to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion, an ambitious move thwarted by government antitrust regulators.
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On the very first page, she stares at the family's pet cat, recalling, matter-of-factly, her aborted attempt to "drown him in a bucket".
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