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Despite the Clarity Act’s stumble in the Senate, regulatory progress continued apace this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

There is this idea that through market-controlling systems like the draft and the salary cap, any team, no matter how minor or shabby, may stumble into a transcendent talent and anoint a dynasty.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Visitors at Boulder Beach would stumble on human remains on three different occasions from July to August 2022 that authorities said all belonged to the same person, Claude Russell Pensinger, a Las Vegas resident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

While watching a film is something you could do back home, she says people might stumble on an old theatre which is "still a part of the history of that city".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

I fling open the door and stumble out of the car.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

One of Mr. Bush’s stumbles was a May 2003 speech from the deck of the U.S.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

One evening, poring through the picturesque archives at the Yale Club while researching her monograph on memory and mind palace theory, Béatrice stumbles upon a curious audiotape.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 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

If it stumbles, Pulisic will get the blame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Marie-Laure’s heels are bleeding and her stockings are torn and every hundred steps she stumbles.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

He stumbled out of bed in his underwear and down the hall to his darkened living room.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was hours before he stumbled onto a fire hydrant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Stocks stumbled out of the gate after Labor Day, with a jittery tone gripping markets as the typically weak month of September began in earnest after the holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

When he was asked in the heat of the 2024 presidential race about how he planned to address child care, an issue affecting families of all political persuasions, he stumbled.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

It was not until the icy February morning that Christoffels stumbled into the dining room with a bleeding cheek and a torn coat that the truth came out.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The tumult comes as the 10-year yield was moving close to the widely watched 5% threshold, which many see as a stumbling block for stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

If “Backrooms” was all about stumbling onto a place humans aren’t supposed to go, “Chronovisor” puts us exactly where we need to be.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

By 2007, I couldn't keep covering up my stumbling with excuses and so felt I had to reveal my diagnosis.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

"I was a party planner for over 10 years and ... I was very sustainably focused. The final stumbling block for me was the balloon waste," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Peter dragged him away, then picked him up in his arms and came sliding and stumbling past us.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo