stumble across
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If you're worried a relative might stumble across the item they'd bought you while they bargain hunt you can always donate to a charity shop outside of your local area.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
Spend enough time scrolling online, and you’re bound to stumble across a photo of a mega-rest stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
Remarkably few of these old-world venues remain in circulation — there are only a handful in America — although they are much revered in Europe, where it is much more common to stumble across one.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
Come May in Seattle, you can’t help but stumble across flowers bursting out of every yard.
From Seattle Times • May 18, 2024
In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she’d finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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