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
Maria Sokolina, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Take it from someone who was 15 years old at the end of the ’90s, with the Family Values ticket stub to prove it: Y2K, the new horror-comedy from Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, operates pretty well as a window into the culture of the Windows 98 generation.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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
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Noun
His teeth were ground down to stubs and constantly breaking.
—Maria Sokolina, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Take it from someone who was 15 years old at the end of the ’90s, with the Family Values ticket stub to prove it: Y2K, the new horror-comedy from Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, operates pretty well as a window into the culture of the Windows 98 generation.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
Justin Swanson, a hemp lawyer and lobbyist who is the chair of Bose McKinney & Evans’ cannabis group, sees the ban in California, the crackdown in North Carolina and other states as nothing other than an attempt to stub out the hemp industry.
—Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stub
Noun
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First-person tales about cancer, freak accidents, chronic disease, and mental breakdowns regularly make their way onto best-seller lists (or into remainder bins).—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Charitable Giving - Donate to qualified charities through tools like charitable remainder trusts (CRTs) to lower your estate’s taxable amount while supporting meaningful causes.—
James Brewer,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Simply prop the closet door open overnight and place one fan in the closet, blowing out, and another fan diagonally from the in-closet fan, blowing in.—
Rabekah Henderson,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2025
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Instead of showing the big game, bars and restaurants around the city put on a replay of Super Bowl XLIV, where the Saints blew out the Indianapolis Colts 31 to 17.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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On the floor were pieces of scrap metal and a film of metallic dust, some of which also floated visibly in the air.—
Daniel Stone,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
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See photos: Impressive nature scenes delight and inspire 'No Access' by Ian Wood Wood, who shot the photo of the badger, noticed that locals had been leaving food scraps on the pavement for foxes.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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With a sultry, woodsy appeal, Le Labo Another 13 smells like the remnants of a forest bath on the skin.—
Jenny Berg,
Allure,
8 Feb. 2025
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The site is surrounded by the remnants of a tall grass prairie that once covered millions of acres of Minnesota and the West.—
John Diers,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Stub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stub. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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