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Example sentences for: stumbled

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But Morris, having stumbled upon a juicy story, never seriously questions Fast's reliability or pokes logical holes in his account.
In the end, he stumbled across a sale by a film collector and bought a print for $125.
In the interim, thousands of lightly armed troops from NATO countries stumbled around Bosnia in their U.N. blue helmets, trying to feed victims and stay out of harm's way.
The road to clinical success is littered with great ideas that have come a cropper along the way, including two other RNA-based therapies, antisense and ribozymes, both of which showed promise at the bench but have largely stumbled before reaching the bedside.
A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Springfield stumbled upon two teleplays by the Nobel Prize-winning author--Faulkner's only known forays into the genre--while researching his master's thesis, Yoknapatawpha TV , at a Duke University archive.