1
: found good, faithful, or trustworthy through experience or testing
a tried recipe
2
: subjected to trials or distress
a kind but much-tried father
Examples of tried in a Sentence
a tried and trusted friend
a tried method for catching sport fish
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City leaders therefore decided to banish the zero and rely on the tried and tested Roman numerals.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
Predicting The Unpredictable Fortunately, there are some tried and true approaches to getting out in front of these types of unpredictable policy swings — many of which were developed and refined during the first Trump administration.
—Laura Clayton McDonnell, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Unlike the streaming services, which dares to different with many of their program entries, CBS recognizes the value of sticking with the tried and true with its older skewing audience.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
The other idea was that Guardiola would fall back on the tried and tested false-nine method, and there were plenty of candidates for that: Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish among them.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 May 2025
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
Predicting The Unpredictable Fortunately, there are some tried and true approaches to getting out in front of these types of unpredictable policy swings — many of which were developed and refined during the first Trump administration.
—Laura Clayton McDonnell, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Unlike the streaming services, which dares to different with many of their program entries, CBS recognizes the value of sticking with the tried and true with its older skewing audience.
—Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
The other idea was that Guardiola would fall back on the tried and tested false-nine method, and there were plenty of candidates for that: Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish among them.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 3 May 2025
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“Tried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tried. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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