stumble

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What this all adds up to: The more all of us use AI—and the more we discover it can do—the more likely we are to stumble into the Turing Trap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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

Their stumble, though, has stopped them pulling clear of those teams, and all but ended talk of an improbable title challenge.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Pep Guardiola insists he "couldn't care less" about Arsenal's stumble letting Manchester City back into the Premier League title race.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

I’m lucky I have Autumn near me, though, because anytime I trip and stumble over one, she grabs me by my dashiki and pulls me back into motion.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer