TRIES Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

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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

Moreover, Jack’s desperate need for vengeance clouds his judgment, leading him to make maddening choices that endanger himself and Zurich police detective Lena (Sallie Harmsen), who tries to help him when no one else will. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Nov. 2026 Frustrated that the cops have turned up nothing, Misty tries putting pressure on them. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2026 When someone suggests to him that people in bygone times would dump loaves of bread into lakes and rivers when someone had drowned, Daniel starts sticking trackers into sturdy pieces of bread and tries it. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2026 Joel initially tries to persuade his brother to take Ellie onward, but ultimately changes his mind and continues with her himself. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Nov. 2026 Frasers, which owns Sports Direct, Flannels and Frasers stores, often builds up large stakes in its suppliers and tries to shake up management and supervisory boards in order to get the best possible trading terms for its stores. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 2026 The music tries to match that vertiginous feeling, with vocals like fairy hiccups and cloud rap beats that sound like falling out of the heavens. — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2026 By that logic, anyone who tries to disrupt a college football fan's Saturday should be seen as someone whose views are incongruent with the hardcore fan's, even if their intentions are pure. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 Victor tries to switch with Joe, Katie, and Abbey, but no one will switch with him. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026

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Butker has missed at least one field-goal attempt in four straight games and has made just two of his last six tries overall. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Nov. 2026 The Isles are 0-2-2 in their past four games and have won just twice in their last eight tries. — Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 11 Nov. 2026 Golden State led 35-20 after one quarter as New Orleans shot just 7 of 23 and missed 10 of 12 3-point tries. — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026 Wolf finished with 13 points, five rebounds and three assists in 18 minutes and 36 seconds, shooting 4-for-6 from the field and 2-for-4 from deep in Wednesday’s 114-104 win, Brooklyn’s second victory of the season in eight tries. — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026 Butker was wide right, his fifth miss in seven tries from 50-plus yards this season. — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026 The Sixers’ only loss (in four tries) is to Detroit, with wins over New York, Cleveland and Milwaukee. — Dan Woike, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Craig made an inaccurate throw on second down and the drive stalled, forcing McCashland, who hit 39- and 37-yard tries, into a longer attempt. — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026 For example, using a quantum computer to break the current RSA-2048 encryption employed in website security, banking and electronic ID cards would require magic states that would fail only once in 10 billion tries. — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026

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The Kamiński/Spielberg collaboration, which now stretches over 30 years and more than 20 films, has to count as one of the most significant artistic collaborations in American cinema history.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
This year’s 24-film lineup stretches well beyond Monroe’s own filmography.

— Ben Croll, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of stretches

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During that work, a router began generating more than 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds, overwhelming routers across the entire FAA network.

— Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2026
Elsinore tells the story of Scottish actor Ian Charleson (Scott) who attempts to perform Hamlet at the National Theatre while secretly living with AIDS.

— Kara Warner, Vanity Fair, 14 Nov. 2026

Definition of attempts

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Nighthawk pushes performance IBM’s current Nighthawk r2 processor has demonstrated significant improvements in quantum execution speed.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2026
And as sea level rise pushes tides and groundwater levels higher, soaking up the dry dirt and drainage area Florida was built to rely on, even smaller storms could cause the kind of damage seen last week.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of pushes

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But the reason for this rather ugly framing device is that the team strives to educate the masses in the art of bankrobbing at the expense of being caught.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 12 Nov. 2026
UConn Women’s Basketball is proud to play in our Basketball is for Everyone Pride game and strives for a culture of inclusion and equity.

— Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of strives

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Then Laurie Barge, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tests how these plausibly ancient molecules might have behaved in prebiotic environments.

— Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2026
But the play tests how far enlightenment can take anyone navigating the tripwires of sexuality and domestic intimacy.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of tests

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David’s drama follows a mother with Alzheimer’s struggling to preserve the memory of her son, disappeared by the Colombian army, while her daughter seeks to leave the tragedy behind.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
The club remained closed after the shooting, and the filing seeks $1 million in damages.

— Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026