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The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

In the edited conversation below, Earley, 53, talks of Ernest Hemingway, technical challenges, and stumbling toward the light.

Slayman eased the young man—Matt, from Pennsylvania—out of the car and got him on his stumbling way.

I carried the puppy up the hill, stumbling under the weight.

If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.

The lowing of cattle and the soft stumbling tread of many unshod feet told him that some one was approaching.

How I do wish sometimes to give Ritchie a jog, when there is some stumbling-block that he sticks fast at.

This design reveals a stumbling-block that superficial people fall over.

At this critical moment feet were heard clattering and stumbling up the stair as if in tremendous haste.

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On this page you'll find 529 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stumbling, such as: amateurish, rude, stiff, all thumbs, artless, and blundering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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