stumble across
Example Sentences
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Outsiders would sometimes stumble across the Rocket Lab community and be swept up in its orbit.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Remarkably few of these old-world venues remain in circulation — there are only a handful in America — although they are much revered in Europe, where it is much more common to stumble across one.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
Come May in Seattle, you can’t help but stumble across flowers bursting out of every yard.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024
Occasionally, I stumble across food safety headlines that make me do a double-take because they are lauding a measure that seems like it should have been standardized long ago.
From Salon • May 1, 2024
In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she’d finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
