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The phrase "attempt to avoid using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to refrain from utilizing something, often in a context where alternatives are being considered.
Example: "In our research, we will attempt to avoid using outdated methodologies that may skew our results."
Alternatives: "try to refrain from using" or "make an effort to not use".
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The Canucks tried to trade Ballard in an attempt to avoid using a compliance buyout on him.
The Steelers had burned a timeout earlier and perhaps in an attempt to avoid using another, Sanders dropped to the ground and caught the officials' attention.
Weis et al. (2008) suggested the assay data be carefully selected from PubChem to attempt to avoid using the imbalanced data in their study.
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Try to avoid using plastic.
Similar studies in the past have oversampled from higher socioeconomic households, and we attempt to avoid this by using a recruitment strategy that targets pregnant women in both public and private hospital settings.
I do not think that the proliferation of alternatives for the word evolution comes from any direct attempt to avoid the use of that word in most popular science writing.
Recently, following the approach by a group at Imperial College (see later) in a pilot study, eight patients with active disease were treated at diagnosis with rituximab in an attempt to avoid the use of corticosteroids.
An attempt to avoid packet collisions by using a polling scheme is suggested in [14].
Surgical excision of the primary tumour was then considered for all patients in an attempt to avoid or minimise use of radiotherapy.
In an attempt to avoid "excessive debt", Fletcher used his line-item veto to trim $370 million in projects from the budget passed by the Assembly.
We made an attempt to avoid a selection bias by using a nationwide series as the basis of the study, but a relatively large proportion of patients who developed distant metastases had to be excluded due to absence of adequate tissue material or data on the first metastatic site.
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