Straight
Both words in one sentence
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A Million Is a Statistic: Check your stats towards the end of the game, chances are you will have killed a good more than 2,000 people, regardless how straight you've tried to go.
Source: Video Game / Red Dead Redemption -
Definitively straight when a member of the audience tried to explain "yoke" and ended up discussing what "yolk" is instead.
Source: Podcast / The Dollop -
Comically Missing the Point: Things might have gone more smoothly if Jack and the Halloween Town citizens actually tried to understand Christmas instead of jumping straight to remaking it.
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Tried and Straight. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/straight/tried
Straight & Tried. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/straight/tried>.
Tried or Straight. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/straight/tried.
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