1
: found good, faithful, or trustworthy through experience or testing
a tried recipe
2
: subjected to trials or distress
a kind but much-tried father
Examples of tried in a Sentence
a tried and trusted friend
a tried method for catching sport fish
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Hublot isn’t shy about pushing geometry where most brands tend to settle for tried and true designs.
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Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The brief trailer for the project begins with an open field, which clips over to the image of a boy in the pouring rain, and closes out with a tried and true Turnstile mosh pit.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
City leaders therefore decided to banish the zero and rely on the tried and tested Roman numerals.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
Predicting The Unpredictable Fortunately, there are some tried and true approaches to getting out in front of these types of unpredictable policy swings — many of which were developed and refined during the first Trump administration.
—Laura Clayton McDonnell, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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Matthew Catellier, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
The brief trailer for the project begins with an open field, which clips over to the image of a boy in the pouring rain, and closes out with a tried and true Turnstile mosh pit.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
City leaders therefore decided to banish the zero and rely on the tried and tested Roman numerals.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
Predicting The Unpredictable Fortunately, there are some tried and true approaches to getting out in front of these types of unpredictable policy swings — many of which were developed and refined during the first Trump administration.
—Laura Clayton McDonnell, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Tried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tried. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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