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Discover LudwigThe phrase "attempt to update" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or endeavor to make changes or improvements to something, such as software, information, or a system.
Example: "We will attempt to update the software to fix the bugs reported by users."
Alternatives: "try to revise" or "make an effort to refresh".
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The government has made no attempt to update its estimate since releasing it on April 28.
But fashion shouldn't just be about old favorites and an attempt to update them.
Studies conducted in the 2000s were gathered in an attempt to update the estimates generated by the Reassessment.
The Machine is an attempt to update the design that has defined the guts of computers since the 1970s.
And equally human is the instinct to defend your own turf, which is what now seems likely to wreck the latest attempt to update American financial regulation.
Similarly, the attempt to update "Fantasia" for the millennium interspersed the old movie, made 60 years before, with newly added musical excerpts.
The sad thing, for me, about A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 is that it doesn't even attempt to update the original in any sort of meaningful fashion.
So, there is a lot to be said for an attempt to update and annotate the first sacred text of evolutionary biology.
Hanley's Respectable, in which she offers herself as a case study, is an ambitious attempt to update Richard Hoggart's groundbreaking 1957 treatise, The Uses of Literacy.
But, delightful though it is to see it revived, I'm not sure it gains from Daniel Kramer's determined attempt to update it.
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The result was Knots & Crosses, an attempt 'to update Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to 1980s Edinburgh.
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