try on
verb
tried on; trying on; tries on
1
: to put on (a garment) in order to test the fit
2
: to use or test experimentally
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Stitch Fix is simply a better retail mouse trap by Baer’s way of thinking, replacing lackluster stores and the endless aisle with stylists who send shoppers a box of looks to try on at home.
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Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
Give it a try on your Thanksgiving table this year.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Future Halloweens would also inspire this book – one year, his son tried on a green rubber Frankenstein mask and couldn’t get it off.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
This amorphous network of political content feels like a 2020s TikTokified incarnation of what Joshua Citarella mapped out in his book Politigram and the Post-left, tracking ideological microcultures that are more like kids trying on masks.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
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Evan Clark, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
Give it a try on your Thanksgiving table this year.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
Future Halloweens would also inspire this book – one year, his son tried on a green rubber Frankenstein mask and couldn’t get it off.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
This amorphous network of political content feels like a 2020s TikTokified incarnation of what Joshua Citarella mapped out in his book Politigram and the Post-left, tracking ideological microcultures that are more like kids trying on masks.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Try on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/try%20on. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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