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stumble across/on/onto/upon

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  • Can't seem to stumble across the right tweed set at the consignment shop?
    — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Fans of The Idea of You could stumble upon a boy band romance in real life thanks to this Airbnb listing!
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • The 10-minute film is an attempt to answer cries for help for those who stumble across it, and to let people know that there are ways to cope.
    — G. Allen Johnson, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • If someone grabs an ankle, do what is necessary to break loose and stumble on down the court.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The lawsuit may stumble on other grounds, like the claims about OpenAI’s creation of a for-profit arm.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The thing about perusing gifts for others is that you’re bound to stumble across something that’s better suited for you (right?).
    — Grace Stearns, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Moments like a stumble on a stairway or a fall off a bike have attracted attention.
    — Katie Glueck, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The snow has melted, and the spring countryside is just lovely, even before our heroes stumble across a herd of giraffes on their travels.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Read Next World Workers stumble upon treasure trove buried 350 years ago in Germany.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
  • Kho decided to withhold the photo from the print newspaper so readers wouldn’t stumble across it.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • There’s also no need to allow packaging that might confuse young children who stumble on a stash.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Writer-director Jay Burleson has made two separate homages to the kind of long-running horror franchises that genre fans would stumble across in video stores in the ’80s and ’90s.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Texas lawmakers did not stumble upon these tactics on their own.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The latest workers to stumble across some 2,000 year old finds were preparing an area for laying new pipes in Rome’s Appio Latino district.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • In an aimless stroll down South Street, stumble across plenty of funky and fresh shops including Retrospect Vintage.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That’s what audience members, those who plan to attend or those who stumble across the performances, could get out of Resonant Spaces.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The notebooks are made of exquisite paper, and there are so many cute greeting cards, calendars, and other stationery goods to stumble upon.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The updates could make Reddit better for those who stumble upon it through a search engine, whizlogic said.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Given the ubiquity of DNA testing these days, there is some likelihood that these brothers will all stumble across one another at some point.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2021
  • For people who stumble onto the Dudesy podcast without any context, the magical realism of the Dudesy AI can be a bit confusing.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Patrons, shoppers, and guests could stumble upon everything from an Eames whale, to a Noguchi lamp, to a 1950s Scandinavian textile.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 June 2023
  • The film follows a group of teenage girls of various ages who stumble upon an alien invasion while traversing the arctic wilderness near their town of Pangnirtung.
    — Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong star in a musical comedy about a couple who stumble across a town that seems to be a classic musical come to life.
    — oregonlive, 2 June 2021
  • The premise brings singles who didn't find lasting love on the original shows to a beach vacation to mingle with one another and hopefully stumble upon a better match.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • The twosome meet up with Ayaka’s eccentric friends at a sushi restaurant (the funniest sequence) and then stumble upon a game-changing discovery.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Bluesky is currently in an adolescent phase, so users who have access to it are prone to stumble upon glitches and other aspects of the platform that need some development.
    — Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 8 June 2023
  • Young musicians still learning their way around an instrument are often more likely to stumble across a really cool idea, Cooper says.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • As for the reasons why its first settlers stopped at the island, O’Connor believes that, contrary to some earlier opinions, the inhabitants didn’t randomly stumble upon it.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • But a recent stumble on the executive jet's stairs ignited fresh concerns about his fitness and scrutiny of the way the White House is managing the optics of the nation's oldest president.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2021
  • That was the question posed by a Globe reader last year for an ongoing series exploring the strange, peculiar, and mysterious sights people stumble across in Boston and beyond.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2021

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