stump
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“I believe wholeheartedly that you can’t force revival,” Lucas Miles declares in his stump speech for the Make Heaven Crowded tour.
From Salon • May 17, 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
Then Tom Bailey was late on a defensive shot and had his off stump knocked back by Aitchison's third ball of the day.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 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
“Even if it was only a stump, you thought it was a bear. You’d have hit him on the head with a club, if he had been a bear, wouldn’t you, Pa?”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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