RichThesaurus
take a stab at
vs
take a whack at
take a stab at
verb
To guess.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, stab.
To attempt or try.
take a whack at
How often have the words
take a stab at
and
take a whack at
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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