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
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
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
Sharp was her pain, poor girl; but she was not angry, and after her first stab of disappointment her courage rose.
From The Laurel Bush by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
