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The phrase "an attempt to sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort or endeavor to organize or categorize something.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to sort the data into meaningful categories for analysis."
Alternatives: "an effort to categorize" or "a try to organize".
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Here, then, is an attempt to sort some of the myths from the facts.
At the same time, it is an attempt to sort something out, to grapple with the reality of these feelings.
In 1969, the Rolling Stones' manager, Allen Klein, came on board in an attempt to sort out the mess and stop the company losing money.
Around this time, he began focussing even more compulsively on "Finnegans Wake" and on an attempt to sort out the chronology of the hundreds and hundreds of plays of the great classic Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
For some, parents' evening can seem more a poor version of speed dating than an attempt to sort out your child's life, with the time-consuming shuffling from queue to queue in a big hall or across a whole secondary school, the shortness of the appointments, and the challenge to learn something meaningful.
Looking back through my columns in the months after that day, I am struck by how many were an attempt to sort through the "new normal," to suss out whether the fierce determination we all felt — to relish our lives and back off a little on our obsession with work — was fleeting or forever.
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He never made any attempt to sort anything out.
A determined attempt to sort out transport would be a good way to show that he is serious.
She confided in friends that Rob was again going missing for days at a time, and that the wedding, in December 2006, was a desperate attempt to "sort her life out".
During the last year, Austria has made a strenuous attempt to sort things out.
Jonathan Schlefer's new book, "The Assumptions Economists Make," is a welcome attempt to sort through some of this confusion.
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