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well-tried

adjective

  1. repeatedly and exhaustively attempted or tried

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“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.”

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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.

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

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

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

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