stub
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It wasn't until 2021 that her killer was brought to justice after the cigarette stub recovered from her flat proved crucial.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
When you touch a hot pan, stub your toe, or bump your head, your nervous system instantly delivers an “Ow!” that prompts you to pull back before more damage occurs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
Now Mom got paid about seven hundred dollars a month, and the first time I saw her gray-green pay check, with its detachable stub and automated signatures, I thought our troubles were over.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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Liverpool's away shirt is inspired by the ticket stubs from European nights during the 1970s and 1980s.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
If one AI company stubs its toe, investors can expect other AI companies to say “ow.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
They’ll also have to include documentation of all household bills and expenses, showing how much they do or don’t contribute personally, as well as financial documents such as bank statements and any pay stubs.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
This has to be a change that has already happened and is documented on your most recent pay stubs or tax returns, he cautioned — not something projected to happen soon.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
I need photographs and souvenirs, concert ticket stubs, evidences of inside jokes.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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Acute pain acts as a warning signal, starting when injured tissue, such as a stubbed toe, sends messages through the spinal cord to the brain.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026
According to Roberts, Betts stubbed his toe after the team returned from this week’s trip on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2025
Simon Bennett, a 65-year-old semi-retired writer from Pontefract, shrugs off a suspected case of trench foot as if he had stubbed his toe.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024
I was out for a brisk stroll, hands in my pockets when I stubbed my toe on an uneven tree grate and fell face-first to the pavement breaking my nose and scraping up my face.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
The trail was cobbled with rocks and threaded with wandering tree roots against which we constantly stubbed and stumbled, and veneered everywhere with polished ice under a thin layer of powdery snow.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Maresca sent on Cole Palmer for the England forward's first appearance in two months after an injury-plagued spell that included fracturing his toe after stubbing it on a door.
From Barron's ● Dec. 3, 2025
After busting a big toe by stubbing it on her coffee table, Burke never goes barefoot.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2022
During an era where patience can be in short supply at the FBS-level, Pitt has stuck with Narduzzi while he’s fielded teams that have flirted with a major breakthrough while also stubbing their toes repeatedly.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
To help shape the boot and protect skaters from stubbing their toes, each boot has a hard protective cap called a box toe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
That’s why the pointless, toe- stubbing battle continued to rage.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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