stumper

Example Sentences

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The conversation grew increasingly heated from there as Carlson launched stumper after stumper made up of basic facts.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

The big-time stumper that year, however, was on the Republican side: George W. Bush passed over the prospects that advisor Dick Cheney was vetting and tapped Cheney himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2024

But he couldn’t resist the allure of this scientific stumper.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

It’s a stumper, but hardly one that you’re going to lose sleep over.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2018

This logic was rather a stumper; but they took him up, as before said, and carried him for further examination.

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.