stumble

“If someone is afraid they are going to lose something like their job, they are going to stumble over themselves.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Movie studios are increasingly focused on signing promising filmmakers as traditional franchises stumble at the box office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

You can almost stumble on to a combination that works well and this time maybe one has helped Brazil.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

After Fox’s stumble, many fans started questioning the intention behind the rule itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

“Well, maybe they give kids the questions in case of nerves. They don’t want you to stumble on live TV.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

And if management stumbles out of the gate, shares trade at a discount to the S&P 500, which offers investors a floor.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

They also noted that as its U.S. business stumbles, Lululemon has increasingly relied on China for growth.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

But its recent stumbles could tarnish its reputation as the gold standard among airlines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

But he stumbles to correct himself, “I mean, no. I gotta get to class, too.”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

The construction workers stumbled across the hidden trove of gold bars and coins while drilling to lay new sewage pipes in the property in east Flanders earlier this week, local media report.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Discovery stumbled in the second quarter, demonstrating the hazard of depending heavily on blockbuster returns from its Burbank film studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Then, on his way home from a run, he stumbled on a loophole: a neighborhood farmers market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

I love a Snickers bar, so when I stumbled upon TikTok recipes for a five-ingredient date “Snickers,” I knew I had to try it.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

For Frabwick, bully that he was, had stumbled upon the one word that hurt our undead hero.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

After stumbling, the Nasdaq accelerated, with its gain in Bespoke’s indexed series reaching 592.5% in March 2000.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

More recently, there have been signs of the Fed mattering a little more to investors, with stocks stumbling as rate expectations have climbed in response to rising energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Yet he now appears to be stumbling into a forever war of his own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

China's property market was once a key driver of national growth, but has become a stumbling block.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Karli was breathless now, stumbling ever more often, wheezing and coughing almost constantly.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo