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Following his confession, Oxford led police beyond a set of railroad tracks, past a church, to a tree stump near the bank of a creek.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

He’d heard about the kid’s stellar football IQ, so he tried to stump him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Brydon Carse cleaned up Nick Potts with another quick and full ball and in the next over, Bashir lost his middle stump to one angled in.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Maybe this stuff works on TV or on the stump.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

He was a little brown monkey and was sitting on a stump about thirty feet away.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

England could have been 35-3 after Joe Root rashly dragged on to his own stumps off Mohammad Ali.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The supply chain bringing matsutake mushrooms from under the tree stumps of southwestern China to its fanciest hotels offers a window into the country’s logistical prowess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Robinson can also thank Australia for bringing back into the fashion the age-old tactic of the wicketkeeper standing up to the stumps to pace bowlers.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Muhammad Rizwan - 5 - A mark boosted by his admirable keeping up to the stumps.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Just as Dustfinger always carried the means of lighting a fire, she always had a number of things with her: candle stumps, a few pebbles, some paper, and a pencil—her wooden tongue, she called it.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

ChatGPT-style AI is revolutionizing the world of high-level math by quickly solving famous, long-unsolved problems that stumped experts for decades.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

In a year of unthinkable math progress, as increasingly powerful AI systems have cracked conjectures that had long stumped humans, OpenAI published a breakthrough on Tuesday that represents the most significant advance yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The 12-year-old drugmaker, more commonly known as RevMed, had spent much of its existence trying to solve a scientific puzzle that had stumped some of the industry’s leading researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In the fifth over, Sooryavanshi looked primed to attack the off-spin of Will Jacks, only to run past a flatter one and be stumped.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

For once in my eleven years, I think I have my dad stumped.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

After Talarico’s campaign posted footage of the former president stumping with him at a taco shop this spring, the equivalencies flowed in.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

"But the fact that it's always been that way since the 90s would suggest that people keep stumping up the money for them," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

“We call it stumping out—it means that your legs just give out and you collapse,” Rahlves said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey, who made a century in the first innings, had another good day with his quick hands stumping Crawley off Lyon.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

An unsmiling woman in uniform, ticket booklet in hand, was stumping towards them when Ginika jumped in and started the car.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie