Decisive and Tried

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Decisive adjective - Fully committed to achieving a goal.

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Tried and decisive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tried" instead an adjective "Decisive".

Tried adjective - Worthy of one's trust.

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Decisive and tried are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decisive" instead an adjective "Tried".

Nearby Words: try, trying

His tried-and-tested tactics earned him some decisive victories, but their predictability after their use in two decades of war was at least one of the reasons Waterloo went the way it did.

Source: Useful Notes / Napoleon Bonaparte
What made it decisive was a powerful storm, dubbed " the Protestant Wind" by some, that swept through as the Spanish tried to regroup after the battle at Gravelines.

Source: Weather of War
In Tales of the Otori, Kaede's father chose to stay neutral in the conflict between the Otori and Tohan clans, then, after the Tohan won a decisive victory at the Battle of Yaegahara, then tried to suck up to the Tohan leadership.

Source: Neutrality Backlash

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