stumble
Example Sentences
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And a stumble early in the tournament would make the kind of deep run Pochettino promised that much more difficult.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Those levels remain from their stumble in the Premier League, with just two wins from 10 games, which has added jeopardy, something which did not look likely at the start of the year.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
Scroll through TikTok and you may soon stumble across Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo cutting each other's hair, or boarding the Titanic in Edwardian dress.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
Most employees acquire those skills over time—by learning from their nonwork relationships, watching how colleagues behave in the office, and by seeing what happens when they stumble in their own workplace interactions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
The three of us giggle as we stumble, then straighten up again.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Vocabulary lists containing stumble
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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Steve Jobs's Commencement Address (2005)
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