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What does attempting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of attempt
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Here is the fingerprint we were attempting to match, and a brief walk-through on how we accomplished this goal.
As far as I can tell you are attempting to redefine torture to exclude waterboarding and sleep deprivation.
It is widely used as a substitute for patients who are attempting to combat addiction to heroin.
Hamilton has a way with words, and her descriptions of attempting to join the cool kids are poignant and funny.
A previously well 13-year-old boy was attempting to swim to a raft on a lake.
I would be attempting to talk to somebody when another person would rush up with joyful squeals of greeting.

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