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stub

[stuhb] / stʌb /


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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

But the definition of what kinds of overtime pay qualify is much trickier than just looking at the overtime line on a pay stub.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

Then he hugged each weeping daughter and walked out the door, hitching up his trousers with the stub of his left arm.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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