The phrase "attempt to associate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to connect or link two or more ideas, concepts, or entities.
Example: "In her research, she made an attempt to associate the rise in temperature with the increase in greenhouse gas emissions."
Alternatives: "effort to link" or "try to connect".
We found that neuroblasts repeatedly attempt to associate with the glial fiber, displaying an oscillatory association and dissociation with the fiber, especially during the early stages of the neuron lifecycle.
We propose here to evaluate the behavior of the hysteretic damping in an attempt to associate that with damage parameter.
One sleazy aspect of the ad that Mr. Kristol did not mention is its blatant attempt to associate John McCain with war and Barack Obama with peace.
He argued that any attempt to associate WikiLeaks with Guccifer 2.0 was pernicious spin trying to turn a coincidence into a conspiracy.
Their attempt to associate democratic debate with people who shoot girls in the head tells you all you need to know about their sense of political entitlement.
George W. Bush left a big growling bust of Churchill near his desk in the White House, in an attempt to associate himself with Churchill's heroic stand against fascism.
But Goldsmith's irresponsible and nasty attempts to associate Khan with extremism could have a chilling effect on the involvement of British Asians in politics.
This view of science and his attempts to associate its supposed mechanistic qualities with Darwin or Wagner now seem to be among his weakest and most dated speculations.
The biblical passages concerning Gog and Magog became the focus of later exegetes, who made repeated attempts to associate them with specific individuals and places.
Mr. Gephardt often led the fight against Mr. Clinton's opening to the world, and still seems proud of that fact, which makes his attempts to associate himself with Mr. Clinton's results a bit strange.
