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as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
the seemingly endless parade finally ended, and the drummers and tuba players stumped wearily to their buses
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Recent Examples of stump
Halle Troadec, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
What this entailed was gaining as much reliable information about the Soviet military as possible while stumping for an open skies policy that would allow overflights by both sides of the other's territory to prevent accidental war.
—David Szondy
march 29, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
There will be other unique opportunities, like joining in Bluey's school class photo and getting to visit Bluey's helicopter stump and a life-sized Gnome Village and Fairy Garden.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
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Verb
But the coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans that Harris built caught the attention of moderate national Democrats such as Pete Buttigieg, another military veteran, who traveled to the northwest Georgia district to stump for Harris last month.
—Halle Troadec, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
What this entailed was gaining as much reliable information about the Soviet military as possible while stumping for an open skies policy that would allow overflights by both sides of the other's territory to prevent accidental war.
—David Szondy
march 29, New Atlas, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
Traces of buildings and objects from the Middle Ages were uncovered, though the oak barrels and a large stump next to a historic road caught the locals’ attention.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
There will be other unique opportunities, like joining in Bluey's school class photo and getting to visit Bluey's helicopter stump and a life-sized Gnome Village and Fairy Garden.
—Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stump
Verb
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Redick has had to shuffle the roster pieces around since, using the final five games of the regular season to assess his rotation options without Doncic and Reaves, who also missed 19 straight games from Christmas until February with a strained calf.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
30 Apr. 2026
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Parkinson’s stem cell trial is underway at UM At the University of Miami, neurologists are testing AI’s capabilities to shuffle through patient data to spot patterns that can help predict which patients may experience rapid decline.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Billie Eilish transformed herself in a golden-age Hollywood ball gown, and Zoë Kravitz caused a sensation by daring to wear sheer.—
Blanche Marcel,
Vanity Fair,
27 Apr. 2026
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And what could be more defensive and self-aggrandizing than choosing a weaker person to pick on, to transfer all of one’s anxieties to, and then to harm for daring to comply?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The area where the top screws onto the mouth of your water bottle can accumulate germs and beverage residue.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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The facility’s bar soda gun holster had residue on it.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
April 24,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Dedicating that much shelf space to the New York Yankees, as your organization gets stomped into the ground by them, at home?—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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New surveillance video from inside a Brooklyn liquor store shows another angle of the rough mistaken identity arrest that ignited a firestorm of criticism, offering a different angle as one of the detectives appears to stomp the prone suspect.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Meeting a partner’s family can be challenging in any circumstance; anxieties about a family member saying something rude or belittling can only compound that.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The case challenged Louisiana’s congressional map, which included two majority-Black districts out of six in a state where about one-third of the population is Black.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The old refuse was collected into a single pile in the 1950s and newer operations continued to accumulate waste there, per DRMS.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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But some of that refuse, the ghost recalls, found a second life in the hands of a woman named Cara.—
Omari Weekes,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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During a routine survey in preparation for a housing development in Winsch, local authorities stumbled upon the former Roman camp in August 2025.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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Clemson also stumbled to a 7-6 mark, a year after registering a 10-4 record in 2024.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, the leaders reported that the core business of the guild — paying residuals, arbitrating credit disputes, and so on — continues, though the guild’s offices, theater and library remain closed.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
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All those incentives given to the original purchaser are passed along to future owners, but according to a Deloitte report, EV residuals are underperforming even more than expected.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Stump.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stump. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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