first stab
Example Sentences
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In theory, the majority might have felt it was proper for the lower court to take the first stab as a matter of appellate procedure.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
The executive oversees daily operations for the county and takes the first stab at drafting the roughly $46-billion annual budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
This is not Wildcat's first stab at shareholder activism.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 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
Estenega looked at her with the first stab of doubt he had felt.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
