experimented
v.v. tried out new ideas, methods, or activities to see what would happen. You do this when you want to find a better way of doing something or learn something new.
v. past tense and past participle of 'experiment'; refers to the performance of scientific tests or the trial of new procedures to discover effects or test hypotheses.
She experimented with different spices in the soup.
The marketing team experimented with several different ad formats before deciding on the most effective one for the campaign.
Throughout the mid-twentieth century, avant-garde composers experimented with electronic synthesis and found sounds, fundamentally altering the trajectory of modern music and our understanding of what constitutes an instrument.
Intransitive; typically requires the preposition 'with' before the object of the trial.