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So if these stocks start to stumble over higher borrowing costs, it could be an early sign of pressure building in the broader U.S. equity market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

There is this idea that through market-controlling systems like the draft and the salary cap, any team, no matter how minor or shabby, may stumble into a transcendent talent and anoint a dynasty.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026

Plus, Asian tech companies stumble and Moderna’s second act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

While watching a film is something you could do back home, she says people might stumble on an old theatre which is "still a part of the history of that city".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

I try to step toward them, but I stumble to the ground.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

One evening, poring through the picturesque archives at the Yale Club while researching her monograph on memory and mind palace theory, Béatrice stumbles upon a curious audiotape.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

If Nvidia stumbles, your portfolio, and perhaps the broader economy, is going to take a beating, even if you don’t own the stock.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

When Berenger stumbles into the office, a debate rages about whether news of a stray pachyderm can be credited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

With Pompeii’s sun blacked out, he stumbles around in the dark with a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Logan closes his eyes, gives his head a quick shake, opens his eyes again, and then sort of stumbles to the front of the room.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

In 2017, an editor at Blue Magazine, the in-flight magazine of Aegean Airlines, stumbled upon her workshop and featured her work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

When he was asked in the heat of the 2024 presidential race about how he planned to address child care, an issue affecting families of all political persuasions, he stumbled.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

But Alpine have stumbled since, until finally showing signs of a revival this season, following Renault's decision to abandon its F1 engine project and switch to Mercedes customer engines.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The irony, as the region stumbled into the ’80s, is that between its wealth and carefully cultivated isolation, Marin came to exemplify the ethos of conformist America: every man for himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

“It’s a friendship thing,” Corban said, clapping Elliot so hard on the back he stumbled forward a step.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

If “Backrooms” was all about stumbling onto a place humans aren’t supposed to go, “Chronovisor” puts us exactly where we need to be.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

"I was a party planner for over 10 years and ... I was very sustainably focused. The final stumbling block for me was the balloon waste," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

In August 1967, my future wife and I found ourselves stumbling over rocks from the walls that weeks earlier had divided east and west Jerusalem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Fisherman and free-diver Giacomo De Mola described stumbling across the historic vessel while surveying the seabed near Mazara del Vallo.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

City officials threw up one stumbling block after another to delay implementation of the Court’s intent.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson