first stab
Example Sentences
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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
Jenkins will therefore take the first stab at drawing new lines for the district that Latimer is running in.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 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
Sharp was her pain, poor girl; but she was not angry, and after her first stab of disappointment her courage rose.
From The Laurel Bush by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
