Trial-and-error

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Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory wordnet
  2. 2
    trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated wordnet

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empiricalexperimentalheuristicpilotprobationaryprovisional

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"We’re often just sort of winging it—we’re trying stuff out and seeing how it goes, and that trial-and-error process means that there are errors happening."

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