stumble

Example Sentences

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Its balance sheet is roughly twice the size of Switzerland’s economy, raising concerns about economic impact should it stumble like Credit Suisse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Scroll through TikTok and you may soon stumble across Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo cutting each other's hair, or boarding the Titanic in Edwardian dress.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Most employees acquire those skills over time—by learning from their nonwork relationships, watching how colleagues behave in the office, and by seeing what happens when they stumble in their own workplace interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Guardiola had claimed on Friday that he "couldn't care less" about Arsenal's recent stumble breathing new life into the title race.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

The monster and I stumble down the stairs and hit the landing outside the emergency door.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer