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An example use of try in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… not to be late I mean try to go with the …”
Try means to make an effort to do something.
the word try occurs in english on average 395.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that try can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) education, science, and technology;
3) people, society, and culture;