first stab
Example Sentences
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Now a 10-year-old but a former winner of the Betfred Bowl at this meeting and he deserves this first stab at the race.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
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
When the first stab came, and I knew I loved, I cast about how best to face mine ill.
From Hippolytus/The Bacchae by Euripides
