Rate
Rate verb - To be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment).
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| good | good rate | good try |
| best | best rate | best try |
| normal | normal rate | normal try |
| usual | usual rate | usual try |
| Other adjectives: infinite, reasonable, small, actual, great, huge, horrible, decent, possible. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Even both of the possible treatments only delay it so that the body can try to fight it off, giving it a low success rate.
Source: Visual Novel / Ever17 - This means it still has a 100% success rate, though, even if nothing is actually done before they try mouth-to-mouth.
Source: CPR (Clean, Pretty, Reliable) -
Nintendo Hard: Just try getting a good win rate on Survival Mode when playing against Kron.
Source: Video Game / Cardinal Syn
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