The phrase "an attempt to reproduce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to recreate or duplicate something, such as an experiment, artwork, or process.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to reproduce the original findings of the study to verify its accuracy."
Alternatives: "an effort to replicate" or "a try to recreate".
Often it resulted from imitation or an attempt to reproduce a remembered effect.
We then implement fluid models in an attempt to reproduce the results of the kinetic model.
What you want on the desk or tabletop isn't an attempt to reproduce the perfect macchiato or ristretto.
"Most roses will set hips in an attempt to reproduce if conditions are right and pollinators are present," she said.
These popular celebrations, which feature beer and German food, are an attempt to reproduce the Bavarian sense of gemütlichkeit cordiality.
Several statistical methods have been developed in an attempt to reproduce the human capability of pattern recognition.
Sometimes a failed attempt to reproduce a result is a matter of an experimental system that displays enough variation or sensitivity to initial conditions that the same result would be hard to generate even if you could create exactly the same experimental conditions.
Because, though he doesn't know it, we have surrounded the colonel with secret cameras and microphones, we have inundated him with mirrors in a final attempt to reproduce a cubist portrait of his anachronistic honesty.
In an obvious attempt to reproduce Lloyd Bentsen's magisterial "You're no Jack Kennedy" putdown of Dan Quayle in the 1988 Vice-Presidential debate, he went in for what he imagined was the kill: Now, in my capacity as Vice-President, I am the president of the Senate and the presiding officer.
Woolf (2012) has suggested that Ebudes may be "an Irish attempt to reproduce the word Epidii phonetically rather than by translating it" and that the tribe's name may come from the root epos meaning "horse".
The paper appears to be an authentic attempt to reproduce the original study, although the study might have had additional value with more controls: "failure to reproduce" studies need to be particularly well controlled.
