has essayed
- present perfect of essay (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Her win was celebrated especially as a triumph for women who don’t readily fit into a social mold, given the wide-ranging and often risky roles Youn has essayed since she began acting in 1966.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2021
As Aeschylus wrote the tragedy of Agamemnon's homecoming, so Mr. Erskine has essayed the comedy of Menelaus' return.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now he has essayed what his book's subtitle calls "a history of heroes of the imagination."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Timidly but often he has essayed the subject to his superior, Minister of Justice Louis Barthou.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Searching for the Man who lives in him was perhaps what he really meant, because certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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