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
Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2025
What appear to be secondary market stubs may actually be coming from the team hosting the event itself.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 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
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Noun
The Justice Department is seeking documents including ballot stubs and signature envelopes from the 2020 general election, the lawsuit from the DOJ's civil department states.
—Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2025
What appear to be secondary market stubs may actually be coming from the team hosting the event itself.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 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
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Noun
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One of the risks of Netflix’s earlier cash-and-stock offer was that a remainder of the final payout to shareholders could fluctuate when WBD was ultimately sold.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2026
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Working with tax strategists early allows for structuring opportunities that minimize liability, such as capital gains treatment, deferred compensation, or charitable remainder trusts.—
John Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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The company says early-stage recycling of production scrap can cut demand for virgin materials while improving supply security for battery manufacturing.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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Grace can find scraps and extract blood from zombies, buckets, and other viscera.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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The remnants of a 19th-century shipwreck have been unearthed on the beach at a New Jersey state park.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Helix Nebula is composed of stellar material shrugged off by a dying star as its outer layers were blasted away and its core collapsed to form a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Stub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stub. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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