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Yet on the stump you might not know she’s ever heard of Chuck Schumer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Like any good candidate, Vance is increasingly bringing his family on the stump.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

“They can be a little kid, they can be an old man, I can’t stump you guys as far as casting you in the scene and that’s fun.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Following his confession, Oxford led police beyond a set of railroad tracks, past a church, to a tree stump near the bank of a creek.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Standing as rigid as a black locust stump, and with his long ears fanned open, he started sniffing the air.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The supply chain bringing matsutake mushrooms from under the tree stumps of southwestern China to its fanciest hotels offers a window into the country’s logistical prowess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Gay swished his bat in the direction of the stumps in frustration and wasted a review, his immediate future in the team vulnerable.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

England could have been 35-3 after Joe Root rashly dragged on to his own stumps off Mohammad Ali.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Karvelas was not finished when he was last man out in Sussex's first innings and, taking the new-ball, separated the Essex opening pair with an angled a delivery into Paul Walter's stumps.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Elxa Dal set two thick stumps of candle down, one in front of each of us.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Stair-climbing has stumped the robotics field for decades, as the activity requires continuous center-of-gravity shifts and visual information processing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cliffe isn’t afraid to admit when he is stumped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Poor Glamorgan fielding, with several dropped catches and a missed stumping, boosted Middlesex as Horley and Trussler put on 131 before the latter was stumped by Abbey Freeborn off the bowling of Eve Jackson.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

ChatGPT-style AI is revolutionizing the world of high-level math by quickly solving famous, long-unsolved problems that stumped experts for decades.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Thinking all the time was too much even for Francis, and often when he was stumped by his equations he used to pump my reservoir of phage lore.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

After Talarico’s campaign posted footage of the former president stumping with him at a taco shop this spring, the equivalencies flowed in.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

"But the fact that it's always been that way since the 90s would suggest that people keep stumping up the money for them," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

“Thank you, Emily”: Wintour stumping for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” as she and Anne Hathaway continue with the makeup and hairstyling prize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

“We call it stumping out—it means that your legs just give out and you collapse,” Rahlves said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

I walked like a drunken elephant stumping from side to side.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos