stump
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The Grand Slams have strongly defended what they stump up - around 15% of their revenue on average - and also point to the state-of-the-art facilities they provide.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
When I asked him about that, he talked about that tension as impossible to resolve, especially not in a minutes-long stump speech.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
The question seemed designed to stump even the person who wrote the episode, not to mention the obsessives competing in the recent “Seinfeld” trivia competition in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
“When I came back our country was dead. Now it’s the hottest country on the planet,” he said in what has become the standard stump speech pickup line.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Slash got his name from the dagger strapped to the stump where his hand used to be.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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