Attract and Try

Attract

Attract verb - Exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away.

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Try and attract are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Attract".

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Attract and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attract" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

man	attract man	try man
woman	attract woman	try woman
people	attract people	try people
kind	attract kind	try kind
Other words: someone, luck, number, way, characters, money, heroes.

Notably, however, much of the advertising campaign downplayed Snow White in favor of the Huntsman to try and attract an audience outside the Twilight crowd.

Source: Girl Show Ghetto
A lot of episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise has some TV 14 fan service from T'Pol in order to try and attract more viewers in the later seasons especially.

Source: Bare Your Midriff
However, the front page became increasingly tabloid-like to try and attract viewers, with titles incorporating words like "SLAM", "BLAST", and "ATTACK" in all caps to try and dramatize stories while the headlines got larger and more sensational for the slightest of reasons.

Source: Magazine Decay

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