Synonyms for attempts
at·tempts

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1. List of paraphrases for "attempts":

   efforts, attempted, attempt, endeavours, tries, retries, endeavors, seeks, experiments

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1. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga:

   There might be terrorism attempts in the future at the Olympics and G7 Summit using drones, so we need to examine and review continuously the way small unmanned vehicles like drones should be operated and how to cope with the threat of terrorism from drones. The government will do all that we can to prevent terrorism.

2. Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

   The so-called Stop George Soros package of laws is only the latest in a series of such attempts. It has become impossible to protect the security of our operations and our staff in Hungary from arbitrary government interference.

3. Colonel Restituto Padilla:

   We want the U.S. military to watch over our ships, which China attempts to block every time we rotate troops and bring supplies to a ship that ran aground on Ayungin shoal.

4. Raymond G. Kessler:

   In truth, attempts to regulate the civilian possession of firearms have five political functions. They (1) increase citizen reliance on government and tolerance of increased police powers and abuse; (2) help prevent opposition to the government; (3) facilitate repressive action by government and its allies; (4) lessen the pressure for major or radical reform; and (5) can be selectively enforced against those perceived to be a threat to government.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41:

   A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.