cut and try

Example Sentences

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“Teams like that are dangerous. Kind of playing carefree, the pace that they play at. They don’t necessarily have an agenda, just pass, cut and try to get the best shot. Constant movement.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Every sales letter is a matter of cut and try.

From How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence by Crowther, Mary Owens

Theory would get you only so far, thereafter it was cut and try.

From Security by Anderson, Poul William

Conclusion.—As a practical problem, the assessment of prospective value is usually a case of "cut and try."

From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert

In discovery of the detailed connections of our activities and what happens in consequence, the thought implied in cut and try experience is made explicit.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John