Attempt
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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When he tells Lilo and Stitch about it, their response is to attempt to "operate" on Pleakley - in Stitch's case, by way of a chainsaw.
Source: Comically Inept Healing -
Okabe Rintarou of Steins;Gate somehow managed to turn a microwave into a freaking time-machine by fiddling with it enough in an attempt to get it to remote operate.
Source: Achievements in Ignorance -
When Pepita is shot, saving the trio's lives in Episode 6-4, our doctors take it upon themselves to attempt to operate on it.
Source: Videogame / Trauma Center
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Operate and Attempt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/attempt/operate
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Operate or Attempt. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/attempt/operate.
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