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The phrase "attempting to decipher the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to understand or interpret something that is complex or unclear.
Example: "The researchers are attempting to decipher the ancient manuscript to uncover its hidden meanings."
Alternatives: "trying to understand the" or "working to interpret the".
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Time was spent listening intently to the records or studying the covers for hidden meaning or, perhaps, attempting to decipher the runes on the book jacket of The Lord of the Rings.
But a decade ago, the indefatigable Voynich expert René Zandbergen (on whose research I've drawn heavily here) was browsing a set of archives from the seventeenth century when he stumbled across a letter that identified the manuscript's next owner: Georg Baresch, an alchemist in Prague in the first half of the seventeenth century, who had spent twenty years attempting to decipher the script.
Last year, a friend and I spent two hours there, attempting to decipher the directions in a gazetteer of rock gravestones as night fell, and employing the help of a friendly guy in a Humvee, who had never heard of Parsons, but seemed fascinated by these two English boys, trying desperately to locate him.
Following the modest success of the English physicist Thomas Young in attempting to decipher the Rosetta Stone, which was engraved with a Greek text along with hieroglyphic and demotic versions, Champollion at last began to piece together the puzzle of the hieroglyphs.
Dr. Miles Berger is attempting to decipher the mechanism underlying perioperative neurologic injury and recently received a 2014 IARS Mentored Research Award.
Within debates attempting to decipher the conclusion of Candide lies another primary Candide debate.
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The volume La expresión americana (1957) includes lectures in which Lezama attempted to decipher the essence of Latin American reality.
The film follows Turing's work as he attempted to decipher the Germans' Enigma codes – as well as the friction between him and his superiors like Denniston.
In this essay, Mr. Guha reproduces many letters and comments from right-wing Hindus as he attempts to decipher the anatomy of a right-wing Hindu in cyberspace.
The message and the bottle will be on display at Hamburg's maritime museum until the beginning of May after which experts will attempt to decipher the rest of the text.
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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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