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The phrase "attached themselves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups who have formed a connection or bond with something or someone.
Example: "The children quickly attached themselves to the new teacher, eager to learn from her."
Alternatives: "connected themselves" or "bonded with".
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Soon wild oysters floating by attached themselves to the shells.
More people had attached themselves to his group.
The All-Stars have never attached themselves to one style.
Superlatives have always attached themselves to "White Christmas".
Our phones have attached themselves like a third limb to our bodies.
Street vendors, selling food and water, attached themselves to the crowd like pilot fish.
One or more rāwīs attached themselves to a particular poet and learned his works by heart.
Toward the end, the dancers attached themselves side to side, an arm around another's neck.
And moving a rig disturbs the organisms that have attached themselves to its underside, or jacket.
As elsewhere in the region, various political forces have attached themselves to the movement.
Of late, too, conservative critics have attached themselves like barnacles to the society's hull.
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