Prospect and Try

Prospect

Prospect verb - To go into or range over for purposes of discovery.

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

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

old	old prospect	old try
good	good prospect	good try
nice	nice prospect	nice try
obvious	obvious prospect	obvious try
Other adjectives: real, great, new, final, next, younger.

Given the generally bleak prospect of being caught between feuding gods for all eternity, the setting is never short on player characters who try to Rage Against the Heavens instead.

Source: Cosmic Chess Game aka: Divine Chess
Rather than for any calculable gain, they play for the thrill and the prospect of the win that will come "any day" but likely never does (or does, but they lose it agan); if they try to stop, they will find they cannot because they are hooked on this feeling.

Source: The Gambling Addict
She pretends to be horrified at the prospect of eating chocolate or butterscotch, so the aliens duly try to torture her with these.

Source: Fake Weakness

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