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
Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
The Archive Room is painted blue and filled with Disney parks memorabilia he’s collected over the years including his ticket stubs, which are safely stored in a fillable glass lamp.
—Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Try to avoid cutting them off leaving stubs.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Some commission members were concerned with the road connections to existing road stubs in the unincorporated Lynnwood subdivision to the west, while other commission members favored the road connections as proposed, Zenner said.
—Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Cut just above a bud so that a flush of growth will screen the stubs.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
The Archive Room is painted blue and filled with Disney parks memorabilia he’s collected over the years including his ticket stubs, which are safely stored in a fillable glass lamp.
—Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Try to avoid cutting them off leaving stubs.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Some commission members were concerned with the road connections to existing road stubs in the unincorporated Lynnwood subdivision to the west, while other commission members favored the road connections as proposed, Zenner said.
—Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stub
Noun
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Perhaps even a rag-tag group of remainders can put a scare into San Antonio.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
1 May 2026
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The best-case scenario would be for the Lakers’ remainders to extend the best-of-seven series with the Rockets long enough for Doncic and Reaves to rejoin LeBron James in that Big Three, either at the end of this series or the start of the next one.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
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Euphoria swept across the country, including in small towns like Ashland, where my friends and I had pulled red wagons around to gather scrap for the war effort.—
Fran Moreland Johns,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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After the war, though, the Canadian Navy needed to downsize, and Onassis bought it for $34,000, which was the scrap value at the time.—
Michael Ballaban,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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While there are traces of the home’s original state, including remnants of wallpaper under the basement stairs, much has been changed in the Prevost family’s absence.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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“Stub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stub. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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