first stab
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The launch was clearly a first stab at a service as it lacked the bells and whistles of Twitter.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2023
Taking the first stab at drafting the arguments herself, Kollar-Kotelly pointed the parties at the 13th Amendment’s bar against “involuntary servitude,” best known for abolishing slavery after the Civil War.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 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
Mr Ruto, one of the country's biggest maize farmers, has won at his first stab at the presidency - and will be Kenya's second-youngest president after President Kenyatta won in 2013 aged 50.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
The heart that had ached so sympathetically for Bruce knew its first stab of loss and recoiled.
From The Camerons of Highboro by Gilchrist, Beth Bradford
