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stub

[stuhb] / stʌb /


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You can look at your latest pay stub and see your year-to-date tax withholding and your year-to-date retirement contributions, and think about whether switching to post-tax contributions would make a difference.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

Now I stub my toe, I’m limping for three weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026

The following month, after a member of the congregation took up the position of treasurer, it was discovered the cheque stub for the £10,000 transaction bore the name Northern Ireland Organs Limited.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

For example, personal information on a ticket stub could be replaced with illegible letters, or a private building exchanged for a fake building or other landscape features.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Grandpa put his arm stub around me, and we lay there, staring down into the grave.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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