stumper
Example Sentences
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The conversation grew increasingly heated from there as Carlson launched stumper after stumper made up of basic facts.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
The big-time stumper that year, however, was on the Republican side: George W. Bush passed over the prospects that advisor Dick Cheney was vetting and tapped Cheney himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
In the melting pot that is the big wide world, “Who am I?” is the ultimate stumper.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
Mike’s triple stumper: illuminating the connection between daylight saving time and golf, and golf’s enormous financial interest in DST.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2014
This logic was rather a stumper; but they took him up, as before said, and carried him for further examination.
From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.
