Synonyms for tried
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1. tested, tried, well-triedadjective

   tested and proved useful or correct

   "a tested method"

   Synonyms:
   tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-tested

   Antonyms:
   unproved, unreliable, undependable, unproven

2. tested, time-tested, tried, tried and trueadjective

   tested and proved to be reliable

   Synonyms:
   tested, well-tried, tried and true, time-tested

   Antonyms:
   unreliable, undependable, unproven, unproved

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1. List of paraphrases for "tried":

   attempted, sought, judged, endeavoured, tempted, prosecuted, deemed, guysfelt, tested, treaty, striven, strived, considered, dabbled

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1. Damian Lillard:

   Tried to get a little bit of space. ... Andre Iguodala grabbed my arm and I lost the ball a bit, there was a lot of contact, but obviously the ref is not going to decide the game or jump in at that point. So... good defensive play.

2. Sertac Koc:

   When they saw jets hitting parliament in Ankara and people in Istanbul, they got organized among themselves and marched to the base to try and stop them, they tried to block traffic to the base by parking their vehicles, burning hay to block the jets' vision, and in the end they attempted to cut the power to the base.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   I have kind of tried to weigh the equities in all of this, trying to avoid dividing our country further than House Democrats already has divided it, but also, we have no choice, we took an oath to protect and defend our democracy and that is what House Democrats has made an assault on, if House Republicans have a higher loyalty to the President than they do to their oath of office, that's their problem.

4. President Edgar Lungu:

   Lungu said during a speech from President Edgar Lungu office. The government tried its best to keep the job losses in the mining sector to a minimum, we would have lost all the jobs if we insisted on no job losses. The mines have told us why these jobs are being lost. The challenges in the mining sector are bound to continue.

5. John Whitehead:

   I remember assigning one young fellow, who later became an important partner, to keep records about companies that might want to merge with a larger company or might be interested in acquisitions, and then we tried to match them up. We were doing this before anybody thought that there might be business for investment bankers in the merger field.

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