The phrase "attempt to dissociate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to separate oneself from a particular situation, idea, or group.
Example: "In her speech, she made an attempt to dissociate herself from the controversial decisions made by the board."
Alternatives: "try to separate" or "make an effort to distance".
They will attempt to dissociate Communist theory from practice in an effort to acquit the former.
This attempt to dissociate "England" from the British empire may indeed sound attractive.
In a second experiment, a shorter exposure was used to attempt to dissociate effects of fluoxetine on behavior and estrous cyclicity.
By contrast those who are genuinely linked to the bomb engage in the opposite psychological process, and attempt to dissociate themselves.
Thus, in March 1795, in an attempt to dissociate himself from his former colleagues, he claimed that each of them was responsible only for the duty with which he was charged and that the signatures to decrees regarded as reprehensible were only a formality.
A verbal working memory test was used to attempt to dissociate the constructs being measured as visual working memory measures might rely more heavily on visual attention which might contribute directly to foraging.
Toller also goes to a secular therapy group, but his tentative attempts to dissociate Christianity from nationalism earn him a ferocious attack from an alt-right student.
But his attempts to dissociate himself from the treatment of Mr Khodorkovsky and Mr Nemtsov do not absolve him from the responsibility that he bears, as guardian of Russia's constitution, for the shortcomings of the courts and the government.
He had plainly been coached by people who had learned the lesson of Robert Bork, a nominee who had had his very explicit philosophy, expressed in writings from which he vainly attempted to dissociate himself, tied to him like a block of concrete and had then been dumped into the Potomac.
The APA has been strenuously attempting to dissociate itself from the Rind paper.
Before Zachos' study, Robert Gurval in his study, Actium and Augustus (Ann Arbor, 2002), took the position that the importance of Actium had been overplayed in the scholarship of recent decades, and he attempted to dissociate from Actium the Augustan projects at Rome, preferring instead to empower the poets, particularly Virgil, as a significant source of Actian propaganda.
