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What does attempting mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of attempt
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It is widely used as a substitute for patients who are attempting to combat addiction to heroin.
Perhaps you were not really trying to make contact with me, but putting on an act that you were attempting to do so.
Their policies are attempting to railroad people into urban settlements by objecting to planning applications in rural areas.
Then, isometrically contract the pectoral muscle, attempting to adduct the arm.
Instead, you stand meekly, wearing your most hopeful expression, vainly attempting to read the seating plan upside down.
Here is the fingerprint we were attempting to match, and a brief walk-through on how we accomplished this goal.

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