endeavored

Verb

endeavor (third-person singular simple present endeavors, present participle endeavoring, simple past and past participle endeavored)

1. (US, obsolete) To exert oneself.
2. (US, intransitive) To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
   • She was endeavoring to teach us the elements of a good prose style.
3. (US, obsolete, transitive) To attempt (something).
4. (US) To work with purpose.
   • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and...2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162

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