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The phrase "attempts to dissociate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing efforts to separate oneself from a particular situation, idea, or group.
Example: "In her speech, she attempts to dissociate herself from the controversial decisions made by the previous administration."
Alternatives: "tries to separate" or "seeks to distance".
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Toller also goes to a secular therapy group, but his tentative attempts to dissociate Christianity from nationalism earn him a ferocious attack from an alt-right student.
But his attempts to dissociate himself from the treatment of Mr Khodorkovsky and Mr Nemtsov do not absolve him from the responsibility that he bears, as guardian of Russia's constitution, for the shortcomings of the courts and the government.
What is remarkable now, however, is how smoothly he attempts to dissociate himself from the relentless scandal machine that he actually helped to operate.
Yet attempts to dissociate himself from the U.S. politics generally and the Clintons in particular isn't helped by his continued involvement with both.
Immediately after the disaster, UCC began attempts to dissociate itself from responsibility for the gas leak.
All attempts to dissociate the purified complex with high salt and mild detergents were unsuccessful (data not shown).
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They will attempt to dissociate Communist theory from practice in an effort to acquit the former.
This attempt to dissociate "England" from the British empire may indeed sound attractive.
In a second experiment, a shorter exposure was used to attempt to dissociate effects of fluoxetine on behavior and estrous cyclicity.
By contrast those who are genuinely linked to the bomb engage in the opposite psychological process, and attempt to dissociate themselves.
He had plainly been coached by people who had learned the lesson of Robert Bork, a nominee who had had his very explicit philosophy, expressed in writings from which he vainly attempted to dissociate himself, tied to him like a block of concrete and had then been dumped into the Potomac.
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