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
After tripping over the third-to-last barrier, the 23-year-old was quickly attended to by medical staff and had a neck brace fitted before being carried off the track on a stretcher.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
They're slow and ungainly, tripping over their own feet, tangling in the dense underbrush, dragging themselves along the ground when they can't find their footing.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
