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The phrase "as I try to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you are in the process of clarifying or detailing something to someone.
Example: "As I try to explain the concept, I realize that it may be more complex than I initially thought."
Alternatives: "while I attempt to clarify" or "as I attempt to describe".
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Please bear with me as I try to explain what that means.
As I try to explain to English friends, "You are Man Utd, we are Man City".
Yet it has happened, and, as I try to explain briefly in the book, why it happened is harder to understand than you might think.
ADAM GOPNIK: Well, as I try to explain in the piece, at moments it's a little hard to say just what the Fooding challenge is.
"Even as I try to explain that there's nothing abnormal in my situation, otherwise the university couldn't have invited me, it's no use," Rousso wrote.
But my own sense, for what very little it's worth, as I try to explain in the essay, is that there seems to be, smells as though there is, feels as though there must be, a real guy back there.
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As I tried to explain in the book I didn't grow up around frightened women.
I am, as I tried to explain when we were talking about neutrality, highly partial about extreme violence.
As I tried to explain to that girl, Kim Novak, "You have got a lot of expression in your face.
Then we each waved the banners of our respective armies as I tried to explain -- patiently, then less so -- what I had meant to order.
As I tried to explain that only she could authorize a payment, I realized how preposterous the suggestion must have sounded to her.
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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