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

"We have jobs, but we don't make anything," he added, as he took an axe to a tree stump in a neighbouring plot.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 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

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