stub
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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
A stub of a candle flickers, sending weak light across the deep scratches on his desk.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
"Why must I suffer accusations every time some Stark stubs his toe? This was Greyjoy's work, I had nothing to do with it."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Chelsea's Cole Palmer will be absent for another week because he fractured his toe when he stubbed it on a door on Wednesday night.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
“It’s never going to be perfect, and today there were some times we stubbed our toe,” Cousins said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
And the only pictures she posted online were of Kahlo, one of her cats, and her swollen toe after she stubbed it.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Footwear stocks keep stubbing their toe, and a sustained recovery remains elusive.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
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
He added, accidentally stubbing his toe on a truth, that running for president without the electoral college would involve “a totally different campaign.”
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2018
“To drink the blood of Lump-lumps out too late,” says Cordelia hopefully, stubbing out her cigarette.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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