stumble

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I spent hours researching free web hosting and stumbled upon Geocities.

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an unsteady uneven gait

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noun

an unsteady uneven gait

noun

an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

verb

walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stumble.

noun

an unsteady uneven gait

noun

an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

verb

walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"

verb

miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"

verb

encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

verb

make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"

Example sentences

I spent hours researching free web hosting and stumbled upon Geocities.

That, too, but the best part is that it gives the government the opportunity to stumble on its own lies.

If you know what you're trying to do, it's almost guaranteed that you'll stumble over the aforementioned.

This is why I love HN. Were you randomly looking up Valve-assigned patents and happened to stumble on this?

With any luck the rest of the economy will recover to buffer an industry stumble, but you never know.

It's a beautiful day outside!\nYep, standing up now to put on clothes, open the windows and stumble around the block in the ice and snow!

I can't tell you how many times I've seen a whole line of customers stumble over how to complete a transaction on Paypal's offering.

I'd randomly stumble on one of my older projects and noticed 5 new issues opened that I didn't know about, I felt like I betrayed my users for 6+ months.

If you think trained scientists couldn't possibly stumble on that kind of pitfall, you should read about N-rays[1].This is just as likely to be true for the "nocebo" effect as for the placebo effect.

Not only do they help you enjoy problem-solving for its own sake, but if you work on enough silly problems, then eventually the odds are good that you'll stumble upon something that other people will later think is really important.

Anything that makes you proud of yourself the next morning.- Eventually, you'll stumble upon something that grabs you--you wouldn't care so much about improving if you didn't enjoy some aspect of what you do.- If a project grabs you, let yourself get carried away.

I can finally let go of my plan to abandon my family, move to the bay area, drain my life savings, live in a shoebox, stumble from one conference and event to the next hoping to network and find my messiah & co-founder, try to get funded, grow my business to someone else's expectations, all for a tiny fraction of a chance to succeed and be either a slave to my own company or lose control of my baby and walk away with diluted equity.