first stab
Example Sentences
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Jenkins will therefore take the first stab at drawing new lines for the district that Latimer is running in.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2023
We have now seen and heard his first stab at trying to take on that hunch.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
Since it won the most seats, Spain´s King Felipe VI is expected to give the PP the first stab at forming a government when parliament is convened on Aug. 17.
From Reuters ● Aug. 7, 2023
In 2016, Zhu and his colleagues took a first stab at the task, synthesizing a mirror-image version of a polymerase from a virus.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2022
When the first stab came, and I knew I loved, I cast about how best to face mine ill.
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
