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What does trial and error mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of finding a solution to a problem by trying many possible solutions and learning from mistakes until a way is found.
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After almost a century of trial and error, weightlifters have proved that the six-meals-per-day plan works best for muscle building.
Until standards were firmly in place, child placers would stumble along with nothing to guide them but trial and error.
Maybe we should learn by trial and error by either overworking or underworking our swimmers.
During their early projects, the Youngs learned through trial and error whom to depend on for skilled work.
They had better success, after much trial and error, by using a one-step cocktail fixative.
One hundred trial and error searches were run with the starting order of taxa randomized for each run, both with and without the new codings.

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