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
“It doesn’t matter. The question is moot,” Jackson intones, before launching into a miniature stump speech.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026
“Its move to stump up an all-cash deal demonstrates how much Netflix wants its prize,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Rana broke through to have Nicholls caught behind with a slower delivery outside off stump and then bowled Conway in his next over.
From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026
It occurred to him that if his strength gave out before he reached shore, he could always hang on to a different tree or another stump or something else that was floating.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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