first stab
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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
Vallejo’s first stab at Monterey County, where he was born, had the county stretched south “almost to San Luis Obispo,” then north to “what would be, according to his map, San Francisco,” Lydon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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
The heart that had ached so sympathetically for Bruce knew its first stab of loss and recoiled.
From The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist
