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• Can't seem to stumble across the right tweed set at the consignment shop?
  — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
• And Jade Carey won gold on floor, but a stumble on the runway kept her from vying for a vault medal.
  — Emily Giambalvo, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
• Fans of The Idea of You could stumble upon a boy band romance in real life thanks to this Airbnb listing!
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• The 10-minute film is an attempt to answer cries for help for those who stumble across it, and to let people know that there are ways to cope.
  — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• If someone grabs an ankle, do what is necessary to break loose and stumble on down the court.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
• The lawsuit may stumble on other grounds, like the claims about OpenAI’s creation of a for-profit arm.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
• The thing about perusing gifts for others is that you’re bound to stumble across something that’s better suited for you (right?).
  — Grace Stearns, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• For example, humans who stumble upon a black skimmer’s nest will hustle out of the area.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• Now, how did the former reality star’s 8-year-old daughter stumble across the nearly 20-year-old song?
  — Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
• Moments like a stumble on a stairway or a fall off a bike have attracted attention.
  — Katie Glueck, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• The snow has melted, and the spring countryside is just lovely, even before our heroes stumble across a herd of giraffes on their travels.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• Read Next World Workers stumble upon treasure trove buried 350 years ago in Germany.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
• Kho decided to withhold the photo from the print newspaper so readers wouldn’t stumble across it.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• Even those who don't seek out racist rhetoric or propaganda stumble onto it, often through sites like 4chan.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• There’s also no need to allow packaging that might confuse young children who stumble on a stash.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
• Things rarely work, and in the rare instance where bureaucrats stumble on something that does, politicians try to ruin it for everyone.
  — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024
• The map itself is a sprawling labyrinth of different areas with treasure to plunder and new gear to stumble across (a la Diablo).
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
• Writer-director Jay Burleson has made two separate homages to the kind of long-running horror franchises that genre fans would stumble across in video stores in the ’80s and ’90s.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Texas lawmakers did not stumble upon these tactics on their own.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2023
• The latest workers to stumble across some 2,000 year old finds were preparing an area for laying new pipes in Rome’s Appio Latino district.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• In an aimless stroll down South Street, stumble across plenty of funky and fresh shops including Retrospect Vintage.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
• That’s what audience members, those who plan to attend or those who stumble across the performances, could get out of Resonant Spaces.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The notebooks are made of exquisite paper, and there are so many cute greeting cards, calendars, and other stationery goods to stumble upon.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
• The updates could make Reddit better for those who stumble upon it through a search engine, whizlogic said.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
• Given the ubiquity of DNA testing these days, there is some likelihood that these brothers will all stumble across one another at some point.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2021
• For people who stumble onto the Dudesy podcast without any context, the magical realism of the Dudesy AI can be a bit confusing.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
• Patrons, shoppers, and guests could stumble upon everything from an Eames whale, to a Noguchi lamp, to a 1950s Scandinavian textile.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 June 2023
• The film follows a group of teenage girls of various ages who stumble upon an alien invasion while traversing the arctic wilderness near their town of Pangnirtung.
  — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• But visitors are encouraged to walk the garden’s lovely, winding paths, leaving it up to serendipity to stumble across something musically beautiful.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
• This series follows two former telemarketers who stumble upon the corruption at their telemarketing center and become determined to expose the industry.
  — Legal Entertainment, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024