well-tried

adjective

1. repeatedly and exhaustively attempted or tried

Example Sentences

“You’ll need extremely strong evidence and a very well-tried case, and even then, you may not get what you’re looking for if you want a conviction.”

From Washington Post

This is not without cost: Billion-dollar bridges, which we have learned how to design through trial and error, practice and well-tried engineering principles, rarely fail—whereas billion-dollar drug failures are routine, not to mention costly.

From Scientific American

Kaveh: You know I had these well-tried psychic algorithms for despair and I had these well-tried psychic algorithms for pure ecstasy, right.

From The New Yorker

The world has a well-tried set of mechanisms for coping with such situations.

From Economist

One well-tried method is to “shoot the messenger”, or at least cripple his or her capability to reveal important and unpleasant truths.

From The Guardian