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• n  trying something to find out about it
• n  a test of the suitability of a performer

• Morris heard a radio ad for a tryout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a neighboring town.
• His father, a former bush-league ballplayer good enough to earn a tryout with the 1926 Athletics, tried his best to steer his only son toward big-league baseball.
• In 1952 a promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet .

• trial
• trial run
• test
• audition

News & Articles

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• WWE Trademarks Name for New TV Show, NXT TV Match Changed, More on Colt's WWE Tryout
  - Sheamus was originally announced to face Bray Wyatt at Thursday's WWE NXT TV tapings but ended up facing Wyatt Family member Luke Harper instead. - In a correction from earlier, it was WWE who approached Colt Cabana about a tryout as a WWE announcer.
  June 22, 2013 - Lords of Pain
• Musketeers start tryout camp
  The Sioux City Musketeers are starting the process of putting their team together. Starting Friday and continuing through Sunday, the Muskies are playing twelve games at their tryout camp, to see who will make the roster in the fall.
  June 21, 2013 - KTIV Sioux City
• Storm holding tryout camp in Minnesota
  KEARNEY — In preparation for the upcoming 2003-04 season, the Tri-City Storm is holding its tryout camp Sunday through Wednesday at the Schwan's Super Rink in Blaine, Minn.
  June 21, 2013 - Grand Island Independent

Quotes

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• Donnie Walsh in SI.com
  Andre Owens is a local,Walsh said. "He lives here, and he really played well in the tryout last week."
• Jerry Colangelo in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  That's basically a plan rather than a tryout of 16 or 15 or whatever the number might have been. We've got a pretty good handle on the 13, 14 names, and it's more about preparation,Colangelo said. "They want to get on with it."
• John Hufnagel in Sportsnet.ca
  Kudos to our scouting department who saw this young man at a tryout,head coach and general manager John Hufnagel said. "He played whatever league he was playing in, but he had great measurables that they saw demonstrated in his workout....