Play at and Try

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Try and play at are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Play at".

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Play at and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Play at" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

However, when they try to have the boys play at their restaurant, their boss is a Upper-Class Twit who doesn't care much for rock music.

Source: Series / Shut Up Flower Boy Band
So naturally, when they try to record... they find themselves trying to play at roughly one frame per second.

Source: Lets Play / The D-Pad
Some of the female players are just glad to play at all (using the example of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League seen in A League of Their Own) and try to ignore that the league basically exists as fanservice for guys too cheap to even get Cinemax.

Source: Useful Notes / American Football

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