as in remainder
an unused or unwanted piece or item typically of small size or value
an ashtray full of cigarette stubs ticket stubs
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as in to blow out
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Recent Examples of stub
The Week Us, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
Ticket stubs, either digital or physical, must be shown upon arrival for class entry.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
Robert Jervis, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Barkan had run through the smoke of a wildfire, fallen numerous times, stubbed his toes until his shoes filled with blood and battled a sore knee.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
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Noun
Each stub sparks a memory, producing a portrait of the artist as a young law student, avid concert-goer, crush-haver, life liver.
—The Week Us, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
Ticket stubs, either digital or physical, must be shown upon arrival for class entry.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
No one seems to have suggested breaking a prisoner’s bones, stubbing out cigarettes on his skin, attaching electric wires to his genitals, or pulling out his fingernails, for example.
—Robert Jervis, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
Barkan had run through the smoke of a wildfire, fallen numerous times, stubbed his toes until his shoes filled with blood and battled a sore knee.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
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Powell can serve out remainder of term as Fed chair Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, said Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell can serve out the remainder of his term leading the central bank.Aris Folley, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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Section 7520 Rate: The 7520 rate is a factor used in making various calculations such as remainder interests, charitable deductions, and minimum thresholds for sophisticated estate planning strategies.Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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The Tide beat Georgia and blew out LSU on the road and beat South Carolina.Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Army lacks victories against top-25 competition and were blown out by No. 4 Notre Dame in late November.Giovanni Malloy, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Du Plessis went six for 11 on takedowns during Saturday’s scrap.Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Many Americans never knew the EV1 existed — and the fight to keep it alive ended with GM crushing nearly all the cars into scrap.Jack Mitchell, NPR, 6 Dec. 2024
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Then, the attackers tossed the remnants of the bodies down a 49.2-foot (15-meter) natural shaft linked to a cave system.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Minority groups, including Druze, Christians and Alawite populations, also composed a southern rebel alliance that helped defeat Assad, and a big question remains as to how the new opposition forces in power will treat the remnants of Assad’s Ba’ath party.Brad Dress, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Stub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stub. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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