The phrase "an effort to duplicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt to recreate or reproduce something.
Example: "The team made an effort to duplicate the experiment's results to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "an attempt to replicate" or "a try to reproduce".
The field of debris in Sunday's test is an effort to duplicate that condition.
Central to the strategy was an effort to duplicate the gradual buildup of fan anticipation that greeted each of the books.
In an effort to duplicate the unfinished look of Thurber's cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, Mr. Hurtz assigned some work on the film to the studio's least competent draftsmen.
Taryn A. Merkl, an assistant United States attorney, protested to Judge Garaufis that the switch in defense lawyers was tantamount to taking a "second bite of the apple," an effort to duplicate the earlier cross-examination.
DeNA bought the startup as part of an effort to duplicate the company's success in the West through creating a dual game distribution platform and first-party game developer.
The series was part of a broader effort to duplicate her success in the non-Latino English-language market.
Four years ago, Brenda Siemer, a documentary filmmaker and the widow of the actor Roy Scheider, spearheaded a community effort to duplicate the Sag Harbor sign on the face of the cinema when it had to be replaced.
based upon the sheer number of similarities and reproductions between your yget template and SuperGu it is unlikely that this is the result of serendipity but rather a premeditated effort to duplicate SuperGu's software design.
Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Thursday with a Memo From Britain article, about efforts to duplicate a tunnel used in the mass escape of Allied prisoners from a Nazi camp, described incorrectly items shown with Hugh Hunt, a Cambridge University engineering professor who was a consultant on the project.
The local garden club got photographs of the original landscaping around the station and began efforts to duplicate it.
