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[stuhb] / stʌb /


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You can look at your latest pay stub and see your year-to-date tax withholding and your year-to-date retirement contributions, and think about whether switching to post-tax contributions would make a difference.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

Now I stub my toe, I’m limping for three weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

The following month, after a member of the congregation took up the position of treasurer, it was discovered the cheque stub for the £10,000 transaction bore the name Northern Ireland Organs Limited.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2024

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

On a couple of them, you can still see the stub of a , crosspiece, burned black.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Instead, I found an option to upload pay stubs manually.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Liverpool's away shirt is inspired by the ticket stubs from European nights during the 1970s and 1980s.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

If one AI company stubs its toe, investors can expect other AI companies to say “ow.”

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

They’ll also have to include documentation of all household bills and expenses, showing how much they do or don’t contribute personally, as well as financial documents such as bank statements and any pay stubs.

From Salon Apr. 29, 2026

A table stood by the door, where a heavy-set man scratched away on a piece of paper, his work lit by a half- dozen candle stubs that would soon burn out.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Acute pain acts as a warning signal, starting when injured tissue, such as a stubbed toe, sends messages through the spinal cord to the brain.

From Science Daily Apr. 27, 2026

Darren Holliday, watch manager at Colchester Fire Station, urged smokers to "double-check your cigarette is fully stubbed out and safely thrown away".

From BBC Apr. 6, 2025

And the expressive Garfield can convey water-eyed empathy so deftly that you know Tobias would be laid low if Almut so much as stubbed her toe on the leg of a coffee table.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2024

I was out for a brisk stroll, hands in my pockets when I stubbed my toe on an uneven tree grate and fell face-first to the pavement breaking my nose and scraping up my face.

From Seattle Times Dec. 31, 2023

Mr. Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Footwear stocks keep stubbing their toe, and a sustained recovery remains elusive.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

After busting a big toe by stubbing it on her coffee table, Burke never goes barefoot.

From Washington Post Jul. 30, 2022

During an era where patience can be in short supply at the FBS-level, Pitt has stuck with Narduzzi while he’s fielded teams that have flirted with a major breakthrough while also stubbing their toes repeatedly.

From Seattle Times Nov. 22, 2021

To help shape the boot and protect skaters from stubbing their toes, each boot has a hard protective cap called a box toe.

From New York Times Sep. 24, 2021

That’s why the pointless, toe- stubbing battle continued to rage.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor




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