stub
Example Sentences
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Now I stub my toe, I’m limping for three weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
For many people, a year-end pay stub will have all the numbers a tax professional needs to determine which pay is eligible for the tax break, Steber said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
For example, personal information on a ticket stub could be replaced with illegible letters, or a private building exchanged for a fake building or other landscape features.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
Sightings of the sweet-toothed Ursus americanus are almost ordinary on Canyon Crest, a stub of a suburban street dotted with swimming pools.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024
The difficulty was obvious: a silver chain attached to the bird's foot had become entangled in the twisted stub of a jutting root, and the bird was caught there by it, unable to move.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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