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Fully accepting that he’s the vulnerable stumbler into conditions and spaces typically inhospitable to humans, Munier still finds spiritual worth in going a day without any sightings.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021

From above and beyond, we perceive him not as a great man falling but as a fragile, all too human stumbler.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ridgefield, Conn. Cat haters are of four types: the insecure, the egocentric, the stumbler, the peasant.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the remark does not pass unheeded, and a laugh, varying in tone from open guffaw to suppressed titter, further exasperates and discomfits the luckless stumbler, who vows vengeance on his tormentor.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

There was an immediate crackle and burst of static electricity, and the stumbler fell back yelping and shaking his arms.

From Pagan Passions by Stanley, Robert