The phrase "an attempt to decipher" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts to understand or interpret something that is unclear or complex.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to decipher the ancient manuscript, hoping to uncover its hidden meanings."
Alternatives: "an effort to interpret" or "a try to understand".
This report represents an attempt to decipher the underlying reaction schemes and interconversions of the two coexisting photocycles.
A rare snippet of Jane Austen's handwriting, part of a sermon on men and prayer, is to be scrutinised by experts in an attempt to decipher the shadowy words which lie on its reverse.
For years now, architects and planners have been jetting to places like Barcelona, Bilbao and Mérida in an attempt to decipher one of the great architectural success stories in modern history.
The piece is an attempt to decipher one of the most complicated personalities in sports, transplanted to an utterly foreign setting; it is also implicitly about the nature of fandom and the lengths to which sports fans will go to hold on to their heroes.
I recently conducted the experiment again, this time with girls, in an attempt to evaluate the differences between how girls and guys get themselves off and in an attempt to decipher if said differences make any difference to the way the sexes dress.
Specifically, we investigated the differences between sensory epithelia of the cochlear and vestibular portions of the inner ear, in an attempt to decipher critical elements driving differential gene regulation in each system.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that measuring one property in a quantum state disturbs another; that is, any attempt to decipher the key will be immediately detected.
Understanding the relative importance of genetic versus plasticity factors represents a major challenge, and a first attempt to decipher both, we previously compared growth patterns in controlled conditions between young eels from two geographic origins [ 6].
Alternating sing-songy raps with squawks and impenetrable ad-libs, he is, at times, extremely difficult to understand (Blackish star Tracee Ellis Ross made a hilarious attempt to decipher his hit Lifestyle).
A first attempt to decipher transfer and potential integration of breastmilk-derived stem cells, along with immune cells, to the offspring was recently carried out by Hassiotou (now Kakulas) et al. with positive results showing integration and differentiation in various organs of the nursed offspring in a murine model13.
