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- noun Plural form of
stub . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stub .
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Examples
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One thing we should all see on our payroll check stubs is the cost of our employer-provided benefit programs.
Top Dems blame insurance industry as health care roadblock 2009
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Unfortunately, right now, we're living for tomorrow, said Jones, who added that a pair of scalpers tried to offer him stubs from a Game 4 ticket.
Storm brings World Series calm; Phillies know it won't last 2008
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Fans who had ticket stubs from the Bengals 'game were eligible for discounted tickets to the college game.
USATODAY.com - College Football - South Florida vs. Cincinnati 2006
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I have bank statements and pay stubs from the early nineties!
April 3rd, 2001 2001
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The stubs were the first solid evidence in the case and they caused a sensation.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The stubs were the first solid evidence in the case and they caused a sensation.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Behind the wings there is a pair of small stubs which is all that is left of the hind pair of wings.
An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman
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The wound should be smooth and clean, without breaks, splinters or splits; the knot-holes in logs and trunks are usually the consequence of long "stubs" and torn injured parts.
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To them, shortly and succinctly, were explained the rules: the system of "stubs" dealt out to newcomers as they gave their numbers and had lockers assigned them -- stubs to be religiously kept for the protection of property from false claimants; the working of a slot machine, in which must be slipped a card, and the moment of the morning and midday arrival thus recorded with ruthless exactitude
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There are some small dealers, who make it a business to collect these "stubs," or employ others to do so, and then sell them to the street boys, at a penny apiece, or less, according to size.
Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Horatio Alger 1865
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