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right to try

Noun

Meaning

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right to try (uncountable)

The right of terminally ill patients to access experimental therapies (drugs, biologics, devices) that have completed Phase I testing but have not been approved by the FDA.

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Examples

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going. Cannonball Adderley

I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him. Harold Pinter

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once. Waylon Jennings

I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you? Diana Wynne Jones

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Alice Walker

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