Try and Wish

Try

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

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

Nearby Words: tried, trying

Wish verb - To offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable.

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Try and wish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Try" instead a verb "Wish".

Nearby Words: wished, wishful, wishing, wishfully, wisher

good	good try	good wish
special	special try	special wish
normal	normal try	normal wish
single	single try	single wish
Other adjectives: small, actual, real, living, new, major, possible, final, extra, next, last, previous, fifth.

life	try life	wish life
people	try people	wish people
best	try best	wish best
luck	try luck	wish luck
Other words: time, way, world, game, everyone, times.

Koichi hears that when two bullet trains speed past one another, the energy released allows wishes to come true, and decides to try and wish for his family to come back together.

Source: Film / I Wish
While the Wild Magic won't try to intentionally screw you, it asks a price for each wish it answers, and the price depends on the difficulty of the wish.

Source: Literature / The Obsidian Trilogy
This prompts them to try and fix things by running fast enough to travel through time, to before they made the wish.

Source: Be Careful What You Wish For / Live-Action TV

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