trial and error
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After "a lot of trial and error" following TikTok videos, the 20-year-old Coventry University student felt confident enough to film herself cooking.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The feat followed trial and error that initially saw him mollycoddle corals in stress-free environments, but those easily perished in the ocean once transplanted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Manufacturing HBM at scale requires expertise that must be built up over multiple iterations of trial and error.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Meadows says no one has deciphered why the vineyard produces such exquisite wines, but it is some combination of terroir, or environment, as well as 2,000 years of trial and error by the region’s winemakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
All of that knowledge is acquired by observation and by trial and error.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
