first stab
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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
The launch was clearly a first stab at a service as it lacked the bells and whistles of Twitter.
From Reuters • Jul. 6, 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
As a boy of nine flying shoeless and stockingless through the icy mud of Blackhampton, bawling, "Result of the Cup tie," he had felt deep in his heart the first stab of ambition.
From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.
