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
We have now seen and heard his first stab at trying to take on that hunch.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
The launch was clearly a first stab at a service as it lacked the bells and whistles of Twitter.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 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
As a boy of nine flying shoeless and stockingless through the icy mud of Blackhampton, bawling, "Result of the Cup tie," he had felt deep in his heart the first stab of ambition.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
