tripping over

Example Sentences

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Big tech companies are tripping over themselves to get as many chips as possible to secure AI supremacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

And then it wasn’t, with the Kings once again tripping over a familiar hurdle.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025

I kept tripping over a man carrying a large wooden cross.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

Archibald, 30, broke two bones in her leg and tore ligaments off the bone after tripping over a step in her garden in June.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2024

Thought they'd be tripping over themselves to memorialize one of their own.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon