TRIES Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

tries 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of try

as in stretches

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress you're trying my patience

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as in attempts

to make an effort to do try to unlock the door will try to call later tonight

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tries

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noun

plural of try

as in goes

an effort to do or accomplish something was granted another try at the field goal

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Recent Examples of tries

Verb

Nate Bargatze’s new movie, The Breadwinner (in theaters now), tries to recapture the magic of the mid-tier comedy, David Sims writes. —

Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026 The Braves have won the opening game of a home series nine times in 10 tries this season. —

CBS News, 5 June 2026 Basketball has made significant strides across Europe as the NBA tries to lay claim as the second-most popular sport in the continent. —

Jared Weiss, New York Times, 5 June 2026 The Dallas Police Department has released body-camera footage and in-car video that shows a suspect escape from his handcuffs and drive off in a cop car as an officer in the back seat tries to stop him. —

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026 After losing everything in Montana, the couple tries to rebuild with Carter (Finn Little) but quickly runs into a new threat — a powerful rival ranch led by Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening) and her sons, who are determined to protect their empire at any cost, according to the series’ synopsis. —

Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 4 June 2026 Create laws that will bring down the hammer on any AI maker that tries to engage in this form of deception. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026 Ava tries yelling at Deborah, which only makes Deborah go quieter. —

Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 29 May 2026 Everyone who tries it loves it! —

Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 29 May 2026

Noun

Freese will need to organize a back line that has failed to keep a shutout in eight tries dating back to last September. —

Julian Cardillo, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026 Levi scored two tries to extend her season-leading tally to 64, and was even more impressive with two try-saving tackles from behind on Katelyn Vaha'akolo. —

ABC News, 7 June 2026 Players had four tries per hour to guess the order and could win at most one BOGO entrée or double protein during the campaign, along with the chance to win the grand prize of free burritos for a year, which was granted to the first player to unlock the vault each hour. —

Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 The project honors Monroe, but sees her, first and almost exclusively, as a victim, one who Eddie Redmayne’s gentle production assistant tries and fails to save. —

Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026 When Brazil won its third world championship in four tries in 1970, the great defender Carlos Alberto captained the team, and not the legendary Pele. —

Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Michael Jordan, after Magic Johnson and Larry Bird combined for eight titles, received his coronation for winning six in six tries. —

Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 31 May 2026 Keldon Johnson scored 15 off the bench for San Antonio, which missed 29 of its 41 3-point tries. —

Tim Reynolds, Twin Cities, 27 May 2026 After three tries, Tassel asks students to submit an audio recording of their name. —

Kendall Staton The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2026

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The Blue Ridge Parkway is nearly 500 miles of a scenic, mountainous road that stretches from Virginia to North Carolina.

— USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Candice and Timothy show Brittany how ‘church hurt’ stretches out from the pulpit and into cultural norms around gender, sexuality, acceptance.

— Brittany Luse, NPR, 9 June 2026