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have a stab
verb as in take a crack at
verb as in try
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Mr Wright was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, where he was found to have a stab wound to the chest and to his inner left thigh.
Police also found the woman’s 20-year-old brother at a neighbor’s house suffering from what appeared to have a stab wound.
They will start to arrive in 2020, even though it is already possible to have a stab at the figures from data in current annual reports.
When he did have a stab at something arty, it came out mangled: he played the poet Paul Verlaine opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud in Total Eclipse.
For 18 months, pundits have pontificated about whether Trump would ever be able to be “presidential”, whether he would behave himself long enough to have a stab at winning the world’s most powerful job.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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