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The phrase "attempt to apprehend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to understand, capture, or seize something, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The police made an attempt to apprehend the suspect after the robbery was reported."
Alternatives: "try to capture" or "make an effort to seize".
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Do not approach or attempt to apprehend the person(s) involved.
(This was a departure: Mexican armed forces had generally retreated to their bases following a failed attempt to apprehend him).
The manual warns that watch members should "not attempt to apprehend a person committing a crime or to investigate a suspicious activity".
If Anwar al-Awlaki had been killed by a police raid in an attempt to apprehend him, we would not be struggling with any moral qualms.
The very attempt to apprehend the incomprehensible, especially by reducing it to therapeutic concepts like parental abuse, is grotesquely to miss the point.
Qaddafi agents who had previously appeared to be hotel staff members joined official press monitors in a chaotic scuffle with journalists in an attempt to apprehend and silence her.
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They attempted to apprehend me without showing any warrant.
Should they not have been called earlier and attempted to apprehend him outside the station?
So you open it once more, this time attempting to apprehend it through his eyes.
After attempting to apprehend the man, with firearms drawn, gun shots are heard as the person filming seeks cover.
The next day, 22 August, police found the inmate on a nearby road and attempted to apprehend him.
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