stumble across
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The communal misery was intense if you happened to stumble across some sad pool of it.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026
"It's scary to think that there are places where this dangerous material is just being dumped and members of the public aren't aware aware of it, that anybody could just stumble across."
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
At one point, when asked if he brought classified material from the West Wing or Naval Observatory to his lake house in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden quipped about what someone in the home might stumble across:
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2024
While you may stumble across a host of unknown and familiar plants at a food forest, at this Tacoma park, you know exactly what you’ll find: blueberries.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023
They’d be well hidden here, but if monsters did stumble across them, they would have no warning.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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