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The phrase "attempts to justify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to provide reasons or explanations for a particular action, belief, or situation.
Example: "The author attempts to justify the controversial decision by presenting various arguments and evidence."
Alternatives: "tries to defend" or "seeks to explain".
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He's wrong only in that he attempts to justify voting one's conscience on strategic grounds.
Aug 7th 2008Living next to the bearRussia has made perfunctory attempts to justify the invasion.
They are pure dancers whose attempts to justify these characters dramatically resulted in largely flat portrayals.
The Bush administration's attempts to justify this war are becoming increasingly Orwellian.
Threaded through News Corp stories are similar attempts to justify its coverage.
Aziz attempts to justify the invasion on economic and historical grounds.
Many called such Western coverage of the stabbings hypocritical attempts to justify terrorism.
News organizations are rightly focused on that, including on the president's attempts to justify it.
Worse still, there are attempts to justify the deaths as legitimate self-defence.
He added: "One of the Government's attempts to justify these changes is the fact it did a consultation.
The extremist group attempts to justify this destruction by condemning the statues and religious symbols as idolatrous and therefore forbidden.
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