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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Recent Examples of stub
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october 3, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Add consent/transparency components to your design system, and generate model card and risk log stubs in your CI pipeline.
—Jagbir Kaur, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Incentives – Make the better choice the better experience, like Billie Eilish’s concession discount for fans who showed a transit stub.
—Adam Gardner, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
The driver's side includes pockets for storing maps, cash, parking stubs and other items one might need quick access to on the road.
—New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
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Noun
In 2007, British citizen Keith Brown spent four months in prison after Emirati customs officers allegedly found .003 ounces of cannabis in a joint stub stuck to the bottom of his shoe.
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The offer also will work for any of the three Thanksgiving NFL games and remainder of the Week 13 slate.—
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See list for remainder of 2025, start of 2026 Remaining full moons in 2025 Thursday, Dec. 4: Cold Moon John Tufts covers trending news for IndyStar and Midwest Connect.—
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Built in 1953 from scrap lumber, Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In remains the town’s most iconic food stop, known for its cheeky signage and nostalgic burgers and milkshakes.—
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In fact, dropping one aimless and often hard to hear scrap of trivia after another as winners walked to the stage, Frazier and Malkin proved a distraction at best.—
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This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.—
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Inside, the last clusters of conversation continued over champagne and the remnants of that improbable charcuterie spread.—
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“Stub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stub. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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