The phrase "attempt to encounter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to meet or come across something or someone, often in a context of exploration or discovery.
Example: "During our expedition, we made an attempt to encounter rare wildlife in their natural habitat."
Alternatives: "try to meet" or "seek to find".
Her occasional attempts to encounter the past directly, usually by finding a grave of some kind, rarely yield many epiphanies.
In one of his attempts to encounter a grizzly in the Albertan Rockies, Hurtubise flew his suit in by helicopter.
In species where territory borders are defended aggressively, attempts to encounter other social groups can be particularly risky (Watts et al. 2006).
The newly passed legislation could be debated in the Lords as soon as Friday or Monday, where it is likely to encounter attempts to frustrate its progress by Eurosceptic peers.
She said she had seen no violations and was not expecting to encounter any attempted falsifications.
On the other hand, the VCF format (Danecek et al., 2011) provides high-level information and focuses on reporting positive variant calls, while reporting of negative calls is usually not attempted and can be expected to encounter scalability limitations.
Ponta called on 15,000 protesters gathered outside his offices to listen to his message in an apparent attempt to defuse tensions encountered by expat Romanians voting abroad.
Tells about an attempt to open an encounter center for youth to discuss the Holocaust in the town of Dachau, and about ex-imates of the….
In the film's sole attempt to visualize an encounter with what Hildegard calls "the living light," the apparition resembles the CBS logo without the letters.
S. offers him coffee, desperately ignoring the gun in an attempt to control the encounter by acting normally, like a teacher talking with a student.
