stump
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His debut piece for Coachella captured a pastel desert with a giant California poppy-turned-Venus flytrap, its long stem ending in a stylus on a record player rooted in a tree stump.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 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
Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
“You made me promise not to get rid of that half-dead stump of a plant, so you owe me a promise too.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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