first stab
Example Sentences
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Jenkins will therefore take the first stab at drawing new lines for the district that Latimer is running in.
From Slate • Dec. 12, 2023
Since it won the most seats, Spain´s King Felipe VI is expected to give the PP the first stab at forming a government when parliament is convened on Aug. 17.
From Reuters • Aug. 7, 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
Mr Ruto, one of the country's biggest maize farmers, has won at his first stab at the presidency - and will be Kenya's second-youngest president after President Kenyatta won in 2013 aged 50.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2022
"Oh, Mr. Philpot resigned nearly three months ago," said Mrs. Carey easily, giving Henry Lord, Ph.D., her first stab, and a look of amusement on her own behalf.
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
