Exercise
How words are described
| good | good exercise | good try |
| special | special exercise | special try |
| normal | normal exercise | normal try |
| usual | usual exercise | usual try |
| Other adjectives: common, proper, actual, entire, real, hard, big, huge, major, religious, final, last, extended. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Marital Rape License: Back when Tom and Ann were married, her indulging in the Lysistrata Gambit led him to try and exercise the license.
Source: Film / Separate Tables -
It also ignores historical precedent concerning what happens to monarchs who try to exercise too much personal power.
Source: Film / Johnny English -
Training Montage: In "Do or Diet", as Whit, Bernard, and Wooton exercise to try to lose ten pounds each, set to a song oddly similar to "Gonna Fly Now".
Source: Radio / Adventures in Odyssey
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Try and Exercise. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/exercise/try
Exercise & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/exercise/try>.
Try or Exercise. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/exercise/try.
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