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

All our experiences have a phase of "cut and try" in them—what psychologists call the method of trial and error.

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

This product engineering is a matter of "cut and try" in some fields.

From Breeder Reaction by Marks, Winston K.

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

From Security by Anderson, Poul William

If not, we shall continue to cut and try, undoing to-morrow what was done to-day, and chaos will result.

From On the Firing Line in Education by Ladd, Adoniram Judson