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 launch was clearly a first stab at a service as it lacked the bells and whistles of Twitter.
From Reuters • Jul. 6, 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
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 for the duchess, she had long ago given her daughter the first stab by writing to her of Lady Dudley.
From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
