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The phrase "an effort to stop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or action aimed at halting something, such as a process, behavior, or event.
Example: "The organization launched an effort to stop the spread of misinformation online."
Alternatives: "a campaign to halt" or "an initiative to prevent".
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Random searches are due to be carried out in London in an effort to stop this.
In an effort to stop the practice, Americans cut off financing for the prison.
Millions of birds had been destroyed in an effort to stop its spread.
Peña Nieto has presented his attack on workers as an effort to stop corrupt union leaders.
They then returned in an effort to stop the other two.
Her mother beat her and threw her out in an effort to stop her drug use.
"I think there was an effort to stop using certain sounds," she admits.
In an effort to stop illegal companies, the taxi association has proposed countywide regulation of cabs.
More than 100 million chickens were culled in an effort to stop the outbreak.
In 2005, Bangladesh stopped registering the new arrivals as refugees, an effort to stop them coming.
Plaintiffs' efforts to restrain competition by Kinko's is simultaneously an effort to stop Kinko's from infringing their copyrights.
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