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noun as in try, effort

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  • undertaking

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  • all one's got
  • one's all
  • one's darnedest
  • one's level best

verb as in try, make effort

  • do level best
  • exert oneself
  • give a fling
  • give a whirl
  • give best shot
  • give it a go
  • give it a try
  • give old college try
  • go the limit
  • have a crack
  • have a go at
  • make a run at
  • shoot the works
  • take a stab at
  • take best shot
  • try one's hand at

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verb as in point or direct at a goal

  • concentrate
  • contemplate
  • set one's sights on

noun as in endeavor

noun as in belief; undertaking for belief

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The orange dot is part of a broader attempt by Apple to burnish its reputation as a privacy-conscious company, and to differentiate the iPhone from Android devices, where privacy controls are more loose.

Barr’s speech Wednesday, then, was an attempt to argue that all of these actions on his part were not only defensible, but good and necessary.

First, a commanding officer must review and approve all search warrants before an officer seeks judicial approval for the warrant, in an attempt to calculate and assess risk.

This is not an attempt to whitewash our waste, to bury the toll that humans are taking on the planet right now.

He said the operation reflected an attempt by Turning Point Action to maintain its advocacy despite the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, which has curtailed many traditional political events.

In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.

The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.

The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.

Their first attempt to unseat the House speaker failed miserably, so why not try again?

He was killed by his captors during the U.S. rescue attempt in Yemen in December.

I do not know how things are in America but in England there has been a ridiculous attempt to suppress Bolshevik propaganda.

She began the study of drawing at the age of thirty, and her first attempt in oils was made seven years later.

This was somewhat tiresome; and, after a rather feeble attempt at a third laugh, Davy said, "I don't feel like it any more."

In cases in which no attempt is made to ignore the accusation, the small wits are wont to be busy discovering exculpations.

But it was a long time before he found any one who was willing to attempt to rearrange his scribbled thoughts.

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Synonyms for attempt

  • have a go at
  • make an effort
  • make an attempt
  • have a crack at
  • have a shot at
  • try your hand at
  • do your best to
  • jump through hoops
  • have a stab at
  • take the bit between your teeth
  • undertaking

to make an attempt to do or make

A trying to do or make something, the act of attacking, earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something, related words.

  • contribution
  • squeeze play
  • takeover attempt
  • criminal offence
  • criminal offense
  • law-breaking

make an effort or attempt

  • pick up the gauntlet
  • take a dare
  • give it a try
  • give it a whirl
  • take a chance
  • take chances
  • lay on the line
  • put on the line

enter upon an activity or enterprise

  • attache case
  • attack aircraft
  • attack aircraft carrier
  • attack submarine
  • attainability
  • attainableness
  • Attalea funifera
  • attar of roses
  • attendance check
  • attention deficit disorder
  • attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • attention span
  • attentional
  • attention-getting
  • attentiveness
  • attenuation
  • Attelabidae
  • Attemperament
  • Attemperance
  • Attemperate
  • Attemperation
  • attemperation of steam
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Synonyms for attempt əˈtɛmpt at·tempt, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word attempt ., wiktionary rate these synonyms: 4.0 / 4 votes.

attempt noun

Synonyms: effort , try

An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

Synonyms: try , effort

English Synonyms and Antonyms Rate these synonyms: 3.0 / 4 votes

  • attempt verb

To attempt is to take action somewhat experimentally with the hope and purpose of accomplishing a certain result; to endeavor is to attempt strenuously and with firm and enduring purpose. To attempt expresses a single act; to endeavor , a continuous exertion; we say I will endeavor (not I will attempt ) while I live. To attempt is with the view of accomplishing; to essay , with a view of testing our own powers. To undertake is to accept or take upon oneself as an obligation, as some business, labor, or trust; the word often implies complete assurance of success; as, I will undertake to produce the witness. To strive suggests little of the result, much of toil, strain, and contest, in seeking it; I will strive to fulfil your wishes, i. e. , I will spare no labor and exertion to do it. Try is the most comprehensive of these words. The original idea of testing or experimenting is not thought of when a man says "I will try ." To attempt suggests giving up, if the thing is not accomplished at a stroke; to try implies using other means and studying out other ways if not at first successful. Endeavor is more mild and formal; the pilot in the burning pilot-house does not say "I will endeavor " or "I will attempt to hold the ship to her course," but "I'll try , sir!"

Synonyms: endeavor , endeavor , essay , strive , try , undertake

Antonyms: abandon , dismiss , drop , give up , let go , neglect , omit , overlook , pass by , throw away , throw over , throw up

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms Rate these synonyms: 4.7 / 3 votes

Synonyms: try , endeavor , strive , undertake , seek , essay , attack , violate , force

Antonyms: disregard , abandon , pretermit , dismiss , neglect , shun , drop

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attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try noun

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

"made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

Synonyms: endeavour , elbow grease , travail , exploit , feat , drive , effort , movement , campaign , sweat , attack , cause , try , enterprise , crusade , exertion , endeavor

attack, attempt verb

the act of attacking

"attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life"

Synonyms: approach , attack , endeavor , onrush , try , plan of attack , fire , endeavour , blast , flak , effort , onset , onslaught , tone-beginning , flack

try, seek, attempt, essay, assay verb

make an effort or attempt

"He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"

Synonyms: examine , search , stress , adjudicate , strain , essay , seek , look for , assay , try out , try , prove , test , try on , taste , hear , set about , undertake , sample , judge , render

undertake, set about, attempt verb

enter upon an activity or enterprise

Synonyms: take in charge , begin , get down , essay , seek , set about , take on , commence , undertake , try , start , approach , tackle , get , assay , go about , contract , set out , guarantee , start out

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you try to do something you attempt

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Synonyms: try , assay , essay , make trial or experiment of

Synonyms: undertake , go about , set about , take in hand , endeavor to accomplish

Synonyms: try , strive , endeavor , seek , aim , make an attempt , make essay , do one's best , do all that in one lies , strain every nerve , leave no stone unturned

Synonyms: effort , trial , essay , endeavor , experiment , undertaking , enterprise

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List of paraphrases for "attempt":

attempted , try , attempts , effort , bid , attempting , endeavour , seek , intention , quest

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You know it's interesting, Robert Mueller was a god to the Democrats, was a god to them until Robert Mueller said there was no collusion. They don't like Robert Mueller so much right now. The crazy attempt by the Democrat Party and the fake news media right back there and the deep state to overturn the results of the 2016 election have failed.

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This is definitely a next-level action. The urgency of climate change warrants such an attempt to disrupt business as usual... to make it impossible for people with decision-making power to go about their daily lives as if we are not in the climate emergency.

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The idea seems to be to signal that (U.S.) war plans cannot succeed because if we activated them, the North Koreans would strike as we made the attempt.

Cameron Sexton :

Trying to judge past generations' actions based on today's values and the evolution of societies is not an exercise I am willing to do because I think it is counterproductive, it is much more productive to learn from Randy McNally past and not repeat the imperfections of the past. Any attempt to erase the past only aligns society with the teaching of communism, which believes the present dominates the past.

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

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transitive verb

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attempt , try , endeavor , essay , strive mean to make an effort to accomplish an end.

attempt stresses the initiation or beginning of an effort.

try is often close to attempt but may stress effort or experiment made in the hope of testing or proving something.

endeavor heightens the implications of exertion and difficulty.

essay implies difficulty but also suggests tentative trying or experimenting.

strive implies great exertion against great difficulty and specifically suggests persistent effort.

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Word History

Middle French essai , ultimately from Late Latin exagium act of weighing, from Latin ex- + agere to drive — more at agent

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President Biden seated in a chair holding a stack of what looks like index cards.

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Dr. Ranganath is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, and the author of the forthcoming book “Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters.”

The special counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities.

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

As an expert on memory, I can assure you that everyone forgets. In fact, most of the details of our lives — the people we meet, the things we do and the places we go — will inevitably be reduced to memories that capture only a small fraction of those experiences.

It is normal to be more forgetful as you get older. Generally, memory functions begin to decline in our 30s and continue to fade into old age. However, age in and of itself doesn’t indicate the presence of memory deficits that would affect an individual’s ability to perform in a demanding leadership role. And an apparent memory lapse may or may not be consequential, depending on the reasons it occurred.

There is forgetting, and there is Forgetting. If you’re over the age of 40, you’ve most likely experienced the frustration of trying to grasp that slippery word on the tip of your tongue. Colloquially, this might be described as forgetting, but most memory scientists would call this retrieval failure, meaning that the memory is there but we just can’t pull it up when we need it. On the other hand, Forgetting (with a capital F) is when a memory is seemingly lost or gone altogether. Inattentively conflating the names of the leaders of two countries would fall in the first category, whereas being unable to remember that you had ever met the president of Egypt would fall into the second.

Over the course of typical aging, we see changes in the functioning of the prefrontal cortex, a brain area that plays a starring role in many of our day-to-day memory successes and failures. These changes mean that as we get older, we tend to be more distractible and often struggle to pull up words or names we’re looking for. Remembering events takes longer, and it requires more effort, and we can’t catch errors as quickly as we used to. This translates to a lot more forgetting and a little more Forgetting.

Many of the special counsel’s observations about Mr. Biden’s memory seem to fall in the category of forgetting, meaning that they are more indicative of a problem with finding the right information from memory than Forgetting. Calling up the date that an event occurred, like the last year of Mr. Biden’s vice presidency or the year of his son’s death, is a complex measure of memory. Remembering that an event took place is different from being able to put a date on when it happened, which is more challenging with increased age. The president very likely has many memories, even though he could not immediately pull up dates in the stressful (and more immediately pressing) context of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Other “memory” issues highlighted in the media are not so much cases of forgetting as they are of difficulties in the articulation of facts and knowledge. For instance, in July 2023, Mr. Biden mistakenly stated in a speech that “we have over 100 people dead,” when he should have said, “over one million.” He has struggled with a stutter since childhood, and research suggests that managing a stutter demands prefrontal resources that would normally enable people to find the right word or at least quickly correct errors after the fact.

Americans are understandably concerned about the advanced age of the two top contenders in the coming presidential election (Mr. Biden is 81, and Donald Trump is 77), although some of these concerns are rooted in cultural stereotypes and fears around aging. The fact is that there is a huge degree of variability in cognitive aging. Age is, on average, associated with decreased memory, but studies that follow up the same person over several years have shown that although some older adults show precipitous declines over time, other super-agers remain as sharp as ever.

Mr. Biden is the same age as Harrison Ford, Paul McCartney and Martin Scorsese. He’s also a bit younger than Jane Fonda (86) and a lot younger than the Berkshire Hathaway C.E.O., Warren Buffett (93). All these individuals are considered to be at the top of their professions, and yet I would not be surprised if they are more forgetful and absent-minded than when they were younger. In other words, an individual’s age does not say anything definitive about the person’s cognitive status or where it will head in the near future.

I can’t speak to the cognitive status of any of the presidential candidates, but I can say that, rather than focus on candidates’ ages per se, we should consider whether they have the capabilities to do the job. Public perception of a person’s cognitive state is often determined by superficial factors, such as physical presence, confidence and verbal fluency, but these aren’t necessarily relevant to one’s capacity to make consequential decisions about the fate of this country. Memory is surely relevant, but other characteristics, such as knowledge of the relevant facts and emotion regulation — both of which are relatively preserved and might even improve with age — are likely to be of equal or greater importance.

Ultimately, we are due for a national conversation about what we should expect in terms of the cognitive and emotional health of our leaders.

And that should be informed by science, not politics.

Charan Ranganath is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and the director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, and the author of “ Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters .”

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It's very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky's latest documentary as "Architection," since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is very easy to figure out whodunit (spoiler: we did it to ourselves). The actual title, Architecton , is a Greek word that means "master builder," and the film plays with the irony of what that may mean - pitting the "master builders" of yesteryear against the "master builders" of today - from the very beginning, using a cryptic line from "L'aquilone," a rumination on bygone times by Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912). "There is something new within the sun today, or rather ancient," he writes. This fascinating, engrossing film interrogates the subtext of this seemingly paradoxical statement.

In a haunting prolog, we see the ruins of a housing estate in what is presumably war-torn Ukraine (Kossakovsky doesn't always tell you where his cameras are pointing). A drone soars above the carnage, revealing the extent of the damage to buildings where people once lived. The evidence of their having been there now seems almost pathetic; these spaces seem barely adequate for existence, let alone survival. It's the ugly, ignominious end of an ugly, ignominious building, but Kossakovsky's seemingly cryptic tone-poem film is just dangling that idea in front of us as an aperitif.

The film itself starts with a very strange ritual; an unnamed architect (later revealed to be Michele De Lucchi, another Italian) is building a stone circle in his garden. There is no purpose to this object other than to be a human-free zone: once completed, only De Lucchi's dog is to be allowed within it.

While all this is going on, Kossakovsky's roving eye takes us around the world, in a travelogue that shows us the resilience of the old world versus the transience of the modern. It shows the poetics of ruin, but it is a cycle with diminishing returns; the debris of the Romans and Greeks still has a grandeur and majesty that is missing from the shabby detritus of the modern world, as we see in the aftermath of the earthquake that laid waste to Turkey in the summer of last year.

For a time, the closest comparison is Godfrey Reggio's 1982 masterpiece Koyaanisqatsi (the title being a native-American Hopi word meaning "Life out of balance"), and Kossakovsky uses music to similar, hypnotic effect. He also goes beyond architecture to take us into the secret world of rocks and stones, and his stunning close-up shots of landslides are some of the best action scenes of the year so far. Gradually, this reveals a narrative purpose; alongside scenes of ruins ancient and modern, Kossakovsky takes us into the production of concrete, a process that takes beautiful stones of all colors, shapes and sizes, then transforms them into an unlovable gray and miserable sludge.

It's all very gnomic, but Kossakovsky can't help but blurt his thoughts out in the epilogue, with a thesis that is really very simple: "Why do we build ugly, boring buildings when we know how to make beautiful ones?"

De Lucchi, a wonderfully lugubrious presence, knows this very well, and speaks quite candidly about his own complicity in this increasingly prevalent anti-aesthetic, saying that, as a global entity, we need to think about "what we build that nourishes the planet and what we build that will destroy it… Architecture is a way to think about how we live, how we behave."

Such a concept isn't all that new - it's over 100 years since Le Corbusier declared that "a house is machine for living in" - but Kossakovsky's fascinating, magnetic film essay does help us to reassess what we've lost over the centuries. And, best of all, it isn't depressing; like Reggio's film, it is a warning sounded in the good faith of being heard in the nick of time.

Architecton verbalizes something we are all thinking in the modern age of war and climate change: what will we leave behind, and what will it say about us to future generations? We can only pray that they'll think of us kindly.

Title: Architecton Festival:  Berlin (Competition) Distributor: A24 Sales agent: The Match Factory Director: Victor Kossakovsky Running time:  1 hr 38 min

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What is Presidents Day and how is it celebrated? What to know about the federal holiday

Many will have a day off on monday in honor of presidents day. consumers may take advantage of retail sales that proliferate on the federal holiday, but here's what to know about the history of it..

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Presidents Day is fast approaching, which may signal to many a relaxing three-day weekend and plenty of holiday sales and bargains .

But next to Independence Day, there may not exist another American holiday that is quite so patriotic.

While Presidents Day has come to be a commemoration of all the nation's 46 chief executives, both past and present, it wasn't always so broad . When it first came into existence – long before it was even federally recognized – the holiday was meant to celebrate just one man: George Washington.

How has the day grown from a simple celebration of the birthday of the first president of the United States? And why are we seeing all these ads for car and furniture sales on TV?

Here's what to know about Presidents Day and how it came to be:

When is Presidents Day 2024?

This year, Presidents Day is on Monday, Feb. 19.

The holiday is celebrated on the third Monday of every February because of a bill signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Taking effect three years later, the Uniform Holiday Bill mandated that three holidays – Memorial Day, Presidents Day and Veterans Day – occur on Mondays to prevent midweek shutdowns and add long weekends to the federal calendar, according to Britannica .

Other holidays, including Labor Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day , were also established to be celebrated on Mondays when they were first observed.

However, Veterans Day was returned to Nov. 11 in 1978 and continues to be commemorated on that day.

What does Presidents Day commemorate?

Presidents Day was initially established in 1879 to celebrate the birthday of the nation's first president, George Washington. In fact, the holiday was simply called Washington's Birthday, which is still how the federal government refers to it, the Department of State explains .

Following the death of the venerated American Revolution leader in 1799, Feb. 22, widely believed to be Washington's date of birth , became a perennial day of remembrance, according to History.com .

The day remained an unofficial observance for much of the 1800s until Sen. Stephen Wallace Dorsey of Arkansas proposed that it become a federal holiday. In 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed it into law, according to History.com.

While initially being recognized only in Washington D.C., Washington's Birthday became a nationwide holiday in 1885. The first to celebrate the life of an individual American, Washington's Birthday was at the time one of only five federally-recognized holidays – the others being Christmas, New Year's, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July.

However, most Americans today likely don't view the federal holiday as a commemoration of just one specific president. Presidents Day has since come to represent a day to recognize and celebrate all of the United States' commanders-in-chief, according to the U.S. Department of State .

When the Uniform Holiday Bill took effect in 1971, a provision was included to combine the celebration of Washington’s birthday with Abraham Lincoln's on Feb. 12, according to History.com. Because the new annual date always fell between Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, Americans believed the day was intended to honor both presidents.

Interestingly, advertisers may have played a part in the shift to "Presidents Day."

Many businesses jumped at the opportunity to use the three-day weekend as a means to draw customers with Presidents Day sales and bargain at stores across the country, according to History.com.

How is the holiday celebrated?

Because Presidents Day is a federal holiday , most federal workers will have the day off .

Part of the reason Johnson made the day a uniform holiday was so Americans had a long weekend "to travel farther and see more of this beautiful land of ours," he wrote. As such, places like the Washington Monument in D.C. and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota – which bears the likenesses of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt – are bound to attract plenty of tourists.

Similar to Independence Day, the holiday is also viewed as a patriotic celebration . As opposed to July, February might not be the best time for backyard barbecues and fireworks, but reenactments, parades and other ceremonies are sure to take place in cities across the U.S.

Presidential places abound across the U.S.

Opinions on current and recent presidents may leave Americans divided, but we apparently love our leaders of old enough to name a lot of places after them.

In 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau pulled information from its databases showcasing presidential geographic facts about the nation's cities and states.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the census data shows that as of 2020 , the U.S. is home to plenty of cities, counties and towns bearing presidential names. Specifically:

  • 94 places are named "Washington."
  • 72 places are named "Lincoln."
  • 67 places are named for Andrew Jackson, a controversial figure who owned slaves and forced thousands of Native Americans to march along the infamous Trail of Tears.

Contributing: Clare Mulroy

Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending news for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected]

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US president Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin pictured in Geneva in 2021

Vladimir Putin says Joe Biden was rude to call him a ‘crazy SOB’

Kremlin earlier said US president’s comments at a San Francisco fundraiser were a ‘disgrace’

Vladimir Putin has described as “rude” Joe Biden’s comments in which the American president called the Russian leader a “crazy SOB”.

Biden was talking about the climate crisis on Wednesday when he said: “We have a crazy SOB like Putin and others, and we always have to worry about nuclear conflict, but the existential threat to humanity is climate.”

On Thursday, after a flight onboard a strategic bomber that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, Putin responded “yes, rude” to a reporter who said Biden had made a rude remark about him.

Referring to earlier remarks in which the Russian leader said Biden was a preferable president for Russia than Donald Trump, Putin joked: “It’s not like he can say to me, ‘Volodya, thank you, well done, you’ve helped me a lot’.”

He added with a smile: “You asked me which is better for us. I said it then that, and I still think I can repeat it: Biden.”

The Kremlin earlier in the day said Biden’s comments were a “disgrace” for the US.

“The use of such language against the head of another state by the president of the United States is unlikely to infringe on our president, President Putin,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said. “But it debases those who use such vocabulary.” The remarks were “probably some kind of attempt to look like a Hollywood cowboy”, Peskov added.

The US president has previously called Putin a killer, a pure thug, a war criminal and a butcher. Shortly after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden said the Russian president “cannot stay in power”.

Speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home on Wednesday as part of a three-day trip through California to raise money for his 2024 re-election campaign, Biden also said he was astounded by recent comments made by his likely Republican challenger. Meanwhile, Donald Trump compared Navalny’s suspicious prison death to his own legal troubles in the US. Trump was fined $350m after a New York judge found he lied for years about his wealth on financial statements in his companies. He said the ruling was a form of “communism or fascism”. Biden responded: “Some of the things that this fellow’s been saying, like he’s comparing himself to Navalny and saying that – because our country’s become a communist country, he was persecuted, just like Navalny was persecuted. I don’t know where the hell this comes from. “I mean, if I stood here 10, 15 years ago and said any of this, you’d all think I should be committed,” he said. “It astounds me.”

Biden has a tendency to go off script during election fundraisers and in recent months has made apparently unplanned remarks about the Chinese president , the Republican party and Israel, a US ally, for its bombing of the Gaza Strip .

Biden’s verbal attacks against Putin have sharply intensified at the White House and on the campaign trail. Last week, the US president blamed Putin and “his thugs” for Navalny’s death. “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that the death of Nalvany was a consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did,” Biden said at the White House.

The Kremlin has denied involvement in Navalny’s death and said western claims that Putin was responsible were unacceptable.

Putin’s comments on Thursday came after he flew on one of Russia’s newest strategic bombers, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, in a thinly veiled reminder to the west of Moscow’s nuclear capabilities.

State TV footage showed him sitting alongside a pilot mid-air followed by a scene showing the president clambering down a ladder from the jet. “This is really a new machine, new in many ways. The control is easier. You can see even with the naked, untrained eye,” Putin told a group of state reporters after disembarking.

After the jet flight, Putin got into a Kamaz truck for a meeting with the heads of the domestic vehicle industry.

For years, the Russian president has cultivated a macho image at home, with antics such as fishing while stripped to the waist, and riding a motorcycle with leather-clad bikers.

Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report

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