Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To attempt again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To attempt again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Another
attempt - verb
attempt again
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Examples
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As was customary, the chief had to adjust and reattempt offerings until the spirits were satisfied. 110
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I remember also reading an old account of how he painted a gold ring with gem stone, scraping it out each time he would reattempt it, trying to capture the essence of it in as few strokes as possible.
Sargent's Repainting James Gurney 2009
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The customer repeated that she had called earlier and someone at FedEx had told her they could reattempt delivery.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us Emily Yellin 2009
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Panelists Erin Kotecki Vest and Joanne Bamberger hope they can reattempt the panel live at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh next year.
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The same impulse to control and limit choice is ascendant in the curretn reattempt at national health care, among other other socialist schemes.
Eric Alterman contemplates whether he has "the typical liberal tendency toward fascism." Ann Althouse 2007
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He was under strict orders from Vienna to reattempt the relief of Mantua and secondly to divert Bonaparte from the Tyrol, and in any case Würmser had no desire to find himself trapped between Moreau and Bonaparte.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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He was under strict orders from Vienna to reattempt the relief of Mantua and secondly to divert Bonaparte from the Tyrol, and in any case Würmser had no desire to find himself trapped between Moreau and Bonaparte.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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The ruling is largely symbolic, because all the legislature has to do is to reattempt it, this time with proper procedures.
Forbes.com: News Rick Ungar 2011
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He said the head controller three times ordered the plane to reattempt the landing and then advised the pilot to fly to another airport.
Toronto Sun 2010
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He said the head controller three times ordered the plane to reattempt the landing and then advised the pilot to fly to another airport.
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