tried-and-true
Example Sentences
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Tried-and-true strategies to help your grandchildren financially — like 529 college-savings plans or even custodial Roth IRAs — still deserve a place in every grandparent’s playbook.
From MarketWatch
Breaking the fourth wall is a tried-and-true method of calling an audience to attention.
From Los Angeles Times
A lot of his subjects — L.A.’s mother tree, pioneering preacher Aimee Semple McPherson, the first Hass avocado — are tried-and-true terrain for Southern California writers.
From Los Angeles Times
In this analogy, the conveyor belt is made of conventional software—those tried-and-true existing pathways for data, which many companies have built up over years, or even decades.
One tried-and-true element is someone on the verge of doing something they shouldn’t: open that door, stare at that window, approach that disturbing figure.
From Los Angeles Times
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