stumble

Could the two nations, he asked, avoid the “Thucydides Trap”—the ancient pattern, described by the Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, in which a rising power and a ruling one stumble into war?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

It’s not just that a robot becomes less threatening when it stumbles.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

But here, too, Wladyka stumbles, opting for a comforting but pat ending about how dance and art enliven so many lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

It’s a familiar story: A ragtag group of 20-somethings stumbles through their personal and professional lives in a big city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

And then he stumbles away, and Abby and Nick look like they don’t know whether to laugh or panic.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

While the U.S. stock market has sometimes stumbled this year after Treasury yields’ sudden bursts higher, Kourkafas sees economic growth and a rotation into tech helping the S&P 500 digest higher rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

That means the Dodgers will get five days off next week to prepare for their playoff opener, a godsend for a bruised and bloodied team that has stumbled to the finish of the regular season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

While wholesale demand stumbled in its latest three-month period, direct sales surged by double digits, proving consumers are willing to buy its products without a discount, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He stumbled back and watched as Miss Priest and Mr. Elives assembled the sticks and the strips of skin into a circle on the ground.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

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

"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

“You’re stumbling about like a pair of headless chickens, when you have a witness to Yakov’s death sitting right here.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros