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Site owners the National Trust fenced off the stump to see if it would recover, with general manager Andrew Poad saying he is "filled with hope by the way nature is taking its course".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Maybe this stuff works on TV or on the stump.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

Ragginold wasn’t doing anything but eating a dead weed on a dead stump, and they were certainly not keeping him from that.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Gay's average in his six Tests is below 25 and his frustration at his second-innings dismissal against Pakistan came out with a swish of his bat towards the stumps.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

When their pace bowlers tried to hit the stumps, they could not find the target.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

In consequence, over the next thirty years, nearly all the hills of northern Georgia were turned into sunny groves of stumps.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

His healthcare providers were stumped by his symptoms: a fever, rash, and intense headaches.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Thinking all the time was too much even for Francis, and often when he was stumped by his equations he used to pump my reservoir of phage lore.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

In a further sign of the times, this week, Harris endorsed El-Sayed and was stumping for him in Michigan.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

The stumping that led to Sooryavanshi lying on his back was an anti-climactic end to what could have been riotous entertainment.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

And for no reason at all that he could make out, his mind leaped to his father, stumping about on his wooden leg, rapping on his leg for attention with a walking stick.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck