The phrase "attempt to corroborate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to confirm or support a claim or piece of information with evidence.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to corroborate their findings with additional data from previous studies."
Alternatives: "try to confirm" or "seek to validate".
In a July 24 letter to Judge Korman, a federal prosecutor said that the Drug Enforcement Administration was "continuing to attempt to corroborate the information provided by Mena and his family" about the killings.
In an attempt to corroborate this theory the racecourse conducted its own survey, which I observed.
In an attempt to corroborate some of his claims, Tripp has posted photos of vehicle identification numbers that he says were delivered with faulty, punctured battery cells.
Haab sent an altered version of the email to HuffPost and Fox News last week in an attempt to corroborate his son's claim. .
This methodological issue is present also in traditional studies that attempt to corroborate their results with papers from different cities or countries [36].
Future studies should attempt to corroborate the findings of our study using rat strains less susceptible to the congenital cardiomyopathy phenotype.
Due to the importance of Mexican immigration in the United States, a surge in empirical research has attempted to corroborate whether the implications of Borjas ( 1987) model hold.3.3
Despite my attempts to corroborate it and the subsequent detail I've been able to gather, I still don't have enough information to determine whether it is absolutely true.
See Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler (1995), and Hoover-Dempsey et al. (2005) for an in-depth review of "Why do parents become involved in children's education?" Several meta-analyses have attempted to corroborate the patterns of sex differences in the classroom in respect to teacher-student responsiveness (Kelly 1988; Jones and Dindia 2004).
