first stab
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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
This is not Wildcat's first stab at shareholder activism.
From Reuters • Jul. 12, 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 Gilchrist, Beth Bradford
