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were attempts
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To try.
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There were attempts to build speaking machines as well.
There were attempts at conventional education for the Bankhead girls.
There were attempts at justification in the aftermath.
There were attempts, too, to categorize the newcomers.
Their albums were attempts to empathize with people.
Evidence shows there were attempts to break down the door.
There were attempts and rejections of certification letters, too".
But these were attempts to make sense of decisions retrospectively.
There were attempts to coax him back to work.
"There were attempts — would I agree to call Saakashvili?
There were attempts at genuine satire, broadly farcical in Blazing Saddles, rather subtler in Cat Ballou.
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