as in reliable
worthy of one's trust
a tried method for catching sport fish
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as in tested
to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress
you're trying my patience
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as in attempted
to make an effort to do
try to unlock the door will try to call later tonight
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Recent Examples of tried
Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Some advertisers are sticking to the tried and true.
—Mae Anderson, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
For several minutes, deputies tried to convince her in both English and Spanish to leave the bathroom to receive help.
—Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Networks are treating prediction markets like polling data, but polls use scientific sampling, transparent, tried and true methodology.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Some advertisers are sticking to the tried and true.
—Mae Anderson, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
Trey tried to process the news as Alicia explained it.
—Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
For several minutes, deputies tried to convince her in both English and Spanish to leave the bathroom to receive help.
—Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tried
Adjective
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The Giants became the first National League team to seven losses, and although 10 games is not a representative sample, there’s never a good time in a season for a team’s most reliable veterans to play sloppily or make decisions on tilt.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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These are not tools that belong in a corporate leader’s operational playbook, but products of necessity arising from the absence of reliable governance.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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About 90% of the Orion capsule's life-support system had never been tested before in space.—
Mark Osborne,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The crew tested the manual control of the spacecraft, which will be needed for future missions that will dock with a lunar landing system.—
Brendan Byrne,
NPR,
10 Apr. 2026
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Police said in both incidents, two suspects approached the delivery driver and attempted to pay for the food with counterfeit money.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Finding the behavior suspicious, police said the officers activated their overhead lights and attempted to initiate a traffic stop.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Espinoza testified that Horner made up an alter ego for himself called Zero and claimed Zero was responsible for the killing.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
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King will also be responsible for enforcing the city’s contracts with Nebius, a Dutch artificial intelligence services company set to break ground later this year on a $150 billion AI data center in eastern Independence.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Callender stretched out to deny the shot, keeping Minnesota United within striking distance for the equalizer minutes later.—
Kyle Kensing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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But at the time her car was found, that silence had stretched longer than usual.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
12 Apr. 2026
Verb
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When the opposition sought to hang posters on lampposts and utility poles, the government, invoking concerns about road safety, at one point stepped in to outlaw the practice.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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Before its construction, however, many people in the community sought to stop the project, citing issues with traffic, pollution and health risks to the neighborhood.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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What had seemed like a good way of chilling out was actually plunging me into a kind of crisis.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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That's all well and good, and that's a huge part of the learning process.—
Bryant Reed,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The confirmation of the 2035 bid, submitted jointly by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, was also pushed back to form part of the same event.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Toronto then pushed their lead into the 20s early in the fourth.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Tried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tried. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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