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The phrase "an attempt to explain something" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing efforts made to clarify or elucidate a particular topic or concept.
Example: "The article serves as an attempt to explain something that has puzzled researchers for years."
Alternatives: "an effort to clarify" or "a try to elucidate".
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Significantly though, the game keeps the details of the outbreak and the disease itself deliberately vague, recognising that any attempt to explain something that's basically pretty ridiculous is doomed to failure (Resident Evil and it's ever expanding psuedo-scientific virus nonsense says hi).
Darwin first sketched something treelike in his notebook in 1837, in an attempt to explain how life evolved on Earth.
Their message is that all art, basically, is an attempt to explain, fend off or accept death; to commemorate, or communicate with, the dead or deities; or to defy death by making something that lives on.
I shall make an attempt to explain.
Here is an attempt to explain.
Then there is an attempt to explain away the dramatic shift as an inexperienced gaffe.
It's mostly an attempt to explain my own disappointment.
Science is an attempt to explain natural phenomena.
At last, someone makes an attempt to explain what superdelegates are.
He would share these steps with us in an attempt to explain them and their purpose.
Especially when speaking is an attempt to explain who we are.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com