Plug and Try

Plug

Plug verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.

Usage example: plugged away at solving the math problem

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Try and plug are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Plug".

Nearby Words: plugged, plugboard

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

special	special plug	special try
normal	normal plug	normal try
obvious	obvious plug	obvious try
big	big plug	big try
Other adjectives: huge, new, last, latest.

people	plug people	try people
stuff	plug stuff	try stuff
time	plug time	try time
characters	plug characters	try characters
Other words: game, everyone, times.

Shinji eventually compels him to let him pilot Unit-01 against the 14th Angel when it becomes obvious that the Dummy Plug won't work, no matter how hard they try.

Source: Fan Fic / The Second Try
The actors also try their best to make it sound exciting, but it's fairly easy to tell they're just going through the motions of Product Placement, the plug sounding wooden and forced.

Source: Enforced Plug
They catapult a rock into the volcano to try to plug it up, but it falls into the crater.

Source: Gonna Need More X

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Plug & Try. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/try>.

Try or Plug. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plug/try.

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