stump
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On the stump, she has been focused on affordability, centered on issues that are popular among many voters.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
He had already been hit on the body and dropped on 26 by Marnus Labuschagne when, stuck on the crease, he edged Boland while pushing tentatively outside off stump.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Like any good candidate, Vance is increasingly bringing his family on the stump.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
He’s repeating the point on the stump, and he’s right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He was standing on top of a large stump and flapping his long arms.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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
Gay swished his bat in the direction of the stumps in frustration and wasted a review, his immediate future in the team vulnerable.
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
Operating with no great pace – Robinson often has the wicketkeeper standing up – the Sussex man relentlessly targets the stumps and pads with unerring accuracy and fingertip control.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The knobs on our dressers were whittled down to damp stumps, and our beds were matted with fine, short hairs.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Stair-climbing has stumped the robotics field for decades, as the activity requires continuous center-of-gravity shifts and visual information processing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Adam Harris Levine stood before the 18th-century painting, completely stumped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
On this occasion, he tried to wallop the spin of Tharindu Rathnayake over long-on and was stumped by a distance.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
The Greeks were stumped by Achilles’ infinite steps.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Dunkley, Corteen-Coleman and Bell all misfielded for boundaries, while Jones missed a rare stumping with Bhatia on 51.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
“Thank you, Emily”: Wintour stumping for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” as she and Anne Hathaway continue with the makeup and hairstyling prize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
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
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