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The phrase "attempt to prevent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to stop or hinder something from happening.
Example: "The organization made an attempt to prevent the spread of misinformation during the election."
Alternatives: "effort to stop" or "try to avert".
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It looks more like an attempt to prevent institutional embarrassment.
Phelan's design is an attempt to prevent this.
The change doesn't seem to have been a deliberate attempt to prevent rudeness among emoji.
"These are things we could focus on in an attempt to prevent violent deaths," she said.
There are proposals to attempt to prevent governments from this indulging in this kind of warfare.
They have begun petitioning the club in an attempt to prevent any potential move.
But I am troubled by Mr. Craig's attempt to prevent the public from seeing what happened.
Two days ago, the Court of Appeal rejected a final legal attempt to prevent the eviction.
Legislatures and central banks throughout the world now routinely attempt to prevent or moderate recessions.
This avoids shutting out the good in a belated attempt to prevent the bad.
In an attempt to prevent output falling, governments embarked on substantial fiscal and monetary easing.
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