stump
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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
“It doesn’t matter. The question is moot,” Jackson intones, before launching into a miniature stump speech.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026
The first of those, delivered Monday, sounded in many ways like a campaign stump speech, except longer.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 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
But if one had seen it on the forest floor, one would have thought it was merely an oddly shaped stump: the cover made of scaly bark, the thick pages bound with twine.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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