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The phrase "attempts to substantiate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to provide evidence or support for a claim or argument.
Example: "The researcher attempts to substantiate her theory with data collected from various experiments."
Alternatives: "tries to validate" or "seeks to support".
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"Our attempts to substantiate this tantalising tale drew a blank," they say at one point.
On the first point, Black never even attempts to substantiate his accusation -- a scandalous omission considering the gravity of the charge.
This work is being published now because early attempts to substantiate the existence of the virus failed.
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Authorities in Louisiana said they were still attempting to substantiate the events in the 2008 filings.
For instance, any given socioecological model does not identify discrete factors, nor does it attempt to substantiate the strength and temporality of causal effects across its entire framework.
The conceptual framework presented here represents a first attempt to substantiate a set of key elements of- and to apply a new paradigm of "solutions-focused" management of chemicals.
A further attempt to substantiate is projected in Table 5 which points up the negligible readings of standard deviation calculated from the observed and predicted values of phenol, 4-CP and COD removals.
Such relations seemed to Nisbet, natural and even beneficial; and his lifelong interest in nineteenth-century social theory and his efforts to locate organicist positions among social thinkers of the left, especially Emile Durkheim, can be attributed to an attempt to substantiate his understanding of basic human relations.
More recently, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte referred to President Obama as the "son of a whore" before attempting to substantiate the insult by explaining that he [Duerte] "calls everyone that".
A model presented by Lawrence & Roth (1996) attempted to substantiate the second hypothesis.
More observations would be needed in order to attempt to substantiate a genetic component to hearing loss in the JRT.
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