Definitions
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- adjective relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory
- adjective trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated
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Examples
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After a few trial-and-error experiments with other PDA phones, I happened upon a Samsung i730.
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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After a few trial-and-error experiments with other PDA phones, I happened upon a Samsung i730.
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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They are not anxious to commit themselves to a specific career, let alone settle down and start families, and they are easy being looked upon as a trial-and-error generation.
Nicolaus Mills: Parents, Grads, and the End of the Commencement Season Nicolaus Mills 2011
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Mr. Golomstock tracks the way that the smash-it-all-up trial-and-error of late imperial Russia's avant-garde experiments that were paralleled, revealingly enough, by Italy's proto-fascist Futurists initially meshed with the ecstatic starting-from-scratch of the Bolshevik revolutionary intelligentsia.
Masters of the Dark Arts Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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As an extension of the venerable point-and-click adventure genre that was first explored on PCs more than two decades ago, this is subject to the format's distinct set of foibles, including all the un-fun of trial-and-error gameplay and precious minutes spent attempting to prod every pixel to discover what you've missed.
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They are not anxious to commit themselves to a specific career, let alone settle down and start families, and they are easy being looked upon as a trial-and-error generation.
Nicolaus Mills: Parents, Grads, and the End of the Commencement Season Nicolaus Mills 2011
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With trial-and-error as their chief strategy, Suitor and the AAC team developed a set of leg braces, weights and belts to compensate for Nichols' steering deficiencies.
North Carolina man aims to skydive without use of his legs 2011
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But his evolution as a farmer — with many trial-and-error detours along the way — included extended adventures with bees and sheep.
The Dismaying Facts of a Farmer's Market Pia Catton 2011
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With trial-and-error as their chief strategy, Suitor and the AAC team developed a set of leg braces, weights and belts to compensate for Nichols' steering deficiencies.
North Carolina man aims to skydive without use of his legs 2011
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The programming they provide reflects that, with rigid rules that don't allow for young adults' proclivity for boundary-pushing and their trial-and-error style of learning.
Kendra Hurley: New Orleans Tragedy Highlights Needs of Homeless Youth Kendra Hurley 2011
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