Declare and Try

Declare

Declare verb - To make known openly or publicly.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

power	declare power	try power
life	declare life	try life
attack	declare attack	try attack
people	declare people	try people
Other words: someone, series, death, earth, game, nothing, war, player, everyone.

With the Joint Chiefs either dead or missing, he jumps on the chance to try and declare war on Iran (even though there's no proof they're responsible for the attack), despite the Acting CIA Director and Acting Secretary of Defense reminding him he doesn't have the authority to order such maneuvers.

Source: Series / Designated Survivor
Hale chooses Elena over immortality, even though he's not sure she'll have him; the tension comes from the betting system—whether Hale or Philby would declare high for Elena, declare low for the scroll, or declare both ways to try to get both.

Source: Literature / Declare
However, Admiral Sir David Milne wrote to a correspondent in 1817 that should the US declare war again, the British couldn't afford to even try to defend Canada.

Source: Crazy Prepared / Real Life

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