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stubble

[stuhb-uhl] / ˈstʌb əl /


NOUN
five o'clock shadow
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When his adult son who happened to be working at Tatte stopped by with a question, Shaich zeroed in on a shadow of stubble he spotted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The 54-year-old comedian with a beard full of gray stubble drops back to pass, launching a tight spiral underneath SoFi’s massive technicolor halo scoreboard hovering above a sea of empty stands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Years of efforts to tackle the problem, including work-from-home policies and rules on crop stubble burning, have done little to alleviate the issue.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

Police said the attacker is described as a white man with blonde stubble who spoke with a Scottish accent.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

The gardens were all brown stalks and stubble and fallen leaves by now, and so was this one, except for one viny upshoot of green and red.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli




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