well-tried
Britishadjective
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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.”
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
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