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The phrase "attempt to get to the bottom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to understand the root cause of a problem or situation.
Example: "The committee will attempt to get to the bottom of the recent budget discrepancies."
Alternatives: "try to uncover the truth" or "make an effort to understand the issue."
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When there is a plot afoot, she isn't one to sit idly by — she will attempt to get to the bottom of things.
"Feinstein's report started as an attempt to get to the bottom of whether these 'enhanced interrogation techniques' were valuable," the former intelligence officer told me.
"We're determined to keep interviewing people in an attempt to get to the bottom of the true facts of the hanging," Mr. Pigott said.
Serial, the podcast made by This American Life, which became hugely popular last year, will attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery of his desertion.
Steyn has not travelled with the squad to Johannesburg, staying instead in Cape Town as team doctors attempt to get to the bottom of a problem which has sidelined him longer than expected.
But my play I Killed Rasputin, while not leaving comedy behind entirely, is a more serious attempt to get to the bottom of what really happened in this confused and mendacious story.
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Ormond will play an investigative journalist who attempts to get to the bottom of the tragedy.
WSJ.com attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of why there have been so many long runs in the N.F.L. this season.
Finally then, Sir Les, we can't let you go without attempting to get to the bottom of the infamous thrashing of the Blue Peter garden.
The chief of campus police, Annette Spicuzza has been suspended while an investigation attempts to get to the bottom of exactly what happened and who it was authorised by.
With the aid of a spirit photographer, Jennie attempts to get to the bottom of a mystery: How exactly did Will die, and why does she keep having such horrible dreams?
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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