well-tried

British

adjective

repeatedly and exhaustively attempted or tried

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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 • Apr. 22, 2021

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 • Oct. 17, 2018

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

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

For this ailment, well-tried cure-alls proved to be of little use.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2016

The knight flung down his p. 130axe and fled in despair from an enemy who held his fiercest blows and his vaunted and well-tried might but as falling leaves and dropping acorns.

From About London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

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