The phrase "attempts at avoiding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to prevent or evade something undesirable.
Example: "His attempts at avoiding confrontation only made the situation worse."
Alternatives: "efforts to evade" or "endeavors to prevent".
Wear an armband and your drone will fly slow (or fast) circles around you as you make a half-hearted attempt at avoiding to kill yourself on the ski slopes.
The latest disproportionate Israeli assault on Gaza showed a very weak attempt at avoiding civilian deaths and injuries or the destruction of infrastructure.
And it's a message that fills me with more positivity than any attempt would at avoiding the reality of my health.
The other is something that I see happening all the time: the attempt at avoidance -- avoiding the questions of, "Am I normal?" and, "Do I fit in?" I asked my friend, after thee very unflattering comparisons to ice cream, whether she meant it the way it came out.
But it quickly became clear that these attempts at control were aimed at avoiding jealousy, and that most negative feelings were not jealousy at all: they were my own fears – that he would leave me, or that I wasn't the epitome of sexuality in his eyes.
In Penrose's words, "the surgeon fears to use too much force in attempts at withdrawal…To avoid this difficulty, [I] had for some time employed a drain made by surrounding the gauzebag with an ordinary rubber condom, the end of which has been cut open" [ 1].
Chief executives have proved adept in recent years at avoiding nearly every attempt to curb their power, and they have an important ally this time.
At present, attempts to avoid edge contact are based on providing chamfers of the tooth surfaces of the gears that may be obtained by modification of the profile of the cutting hobs.
For very young children, the risks of severe hypoglycemia on brain development may require a strategy that attempts to avoid hypoglycemia at all costs.
