take a crack at
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I found it myself on Google Flights, then, for journalistic reasons, asked Muse to take a crack at the booking.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
When he asked Anthropic’s coding tool to take a crack at the infamous Riemann hypothesis, Jarred Sumner had no idea how much progress it would make on the 167-year-old conjecture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“But ultimately, I wanted to challenge myself in the best league in the world and decided to take a crack at MLB.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
It's also the third most common last name in America, so if you want to take a crack at anybody's mother's maiden name, mine is a pretty good guess.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
Almost all of the fourteen entrants wanted an opportunity to go to the Interzonal, and it was rumored that some had entered to take a crack at Bobby Fischer.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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