ESSAYED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

essayed

verb

past tense of essay

as in tried

to make an effort to do he had been in gymnastics for some time before he even considered essaying that move

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Recent Examples of essayed Larger collaboration, now being essayed by film industries as established as France and the Nordic States, is the bigger major way Africa’s film industries can also go. — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026 After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026 During the last 45 years or so, additional sketches for the finale have surfaced, and a number of musicologists and composers have essayed completions of the movement. — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026 In the process, Tarr essayed an arresting tone poem about spiritual isolation that enraptured viewers. — Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026

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Moczarski, who had once tried to assassinate Stroop, discovered that his cellmate was entirely unrepentant, and willing to discuss his crimes freely.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Aug. 2026
Because of a lack of variety in Halal restaurants, neither of the men had tried barbecue besides brisket before their trip.

— Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 2026

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The Esquire piece covers a Texas district attorney named Bill Conradt, who died by suicide in 2006 when Hansen and Dateline’s cameras, as well as law enforcement, attempted to apprehend him at his home as part of an operation covered by the program.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Carter faces attempted murder charges in which the two deputies and the PG&E worker are listed as victims injured in the shooting, according to the criminal complaint filed by the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026

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