Attempt
Attempt noun - An effort to do or accomplish something.
Performance and attempt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Performance" instead a noun "Attempt".
Nearby Words: attempted, attempting
Performance
Performance noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Attempt and performance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attempt" instead a noun "Performance".
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- A later episode, "The Anxiety Optimization", has a similar plot, with Sheldon raising his anxiety levels in an attempt to optimize his performance.
Source: Insomnia Episode -
Subverted in Firefly, when the crew, planning an escape attempt that would work "if we only had a distraction", is just as stunned and distracted as the bad guys by River's impromptu performance.
Source: We Need a Distraction - One person, in attempt to determine the best path for a full band performance of a song, made a program that could essentially brute-force its way through a full band path, which requires such a large amount of computational power and time that it costs about $2 to path each song.
Source: Metagame
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