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• Every once in a while, take a stab at cleaning the inside of your air fryer.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Bottoms’ stars are all in their mid-to-late 20s, and the film doesn’t even take a stab at trying to age them down visually, but that kind of enhances the humor.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2023
• Bills that at least would begin to make a stab at it always seem to fail in the California State Legislature.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2022
• About a decade ago, their educations complete, the sisters decided to take a stab at a career in music.
  — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
• Devenanzio pairs up with longtime friend and fellow Challenge vet Nany González to take a stab at winning season 38's $1 million grand prize.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• The extreme conservatives who did take a stab at condemning Dank Brandon could barely muster a reason to be angry.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2022
• However, multiple directors and writers came and went throughout the process, with Miller even teaming with comic book scribe Grant Morrison to take a stab at a script.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2023
• Her past doesn’t excuse her violent and negligent behavior, but does take a stab at explaining it.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• Losers can be elected as guessers who take a stab at identifying a roommate's famous family member.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
• This paper attempts to take a stab at peeling pack the veil and gaining a more fundamental understanding of the phenomenon.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2010
• To keep your feet on solid ground, here are some analog experiments—custom-designed for your zodiac sign—to take a stab at during this trying time period.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Apr. 2023
• Other top tips, which could double as new year’s resolutions: Make a plan to ask for a raise, replace eating out with meal prepping, investigate investment strategies, and take a stab at some no-spend days.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
• Knowing that Bernstein was dating Nora Ephron, whose parents were screenwriters, Woodward suggested that the couple take a stab at writing a screenplay themselves.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Parker Posey wants to take a stab at another Scream movie despite her character's grisly — and seemingly pretty definitive — death in Scream 3.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Perseverance will make a stab at that, but human rock hounds, capable of traveling far over difficult terrain, climbing, digging, doing delicate work and intuitively following up clues, can do that job vastly better.
  — Robert Zubrin, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024