Look at
Look at verb - Look at carefully; study mentally.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
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The Main Characters Do Everything: When Jack gets off the bus at the airport, he goes under the bus on a speeding cart to look at and try to disarm the bomb, not any of the other present policemen.
Source: Film / Speed -
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When the nurses visit the ship, Pulver very helpfully offers them binoculars so they can look at their hospital while the men frantically try to stop him.
Source: Literature / Mister Roberts - Another version had the condition that she be allowed to be alone, locking herself in her room, every Saturday or Sunday till noon, and the knight would never try to look at or visit her then.
Source: Non-Human Lover Reveal
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Try and Look at. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/look_at/try
Look at & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/look_at/try>.
Try or Look at. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/look_at/try.
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