STUMBLE (ON OR ONTO) Synonyms: 21 Similar Words

stumble (on or onto)

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Definition of stumble (on or onto)

as in to find

to come upon unexpectedly or by chance stumbled on some old family photos when she was cleaning out a drawer

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Yet the clubs from small markets with relatively low payrolls found ways to play the best baseball in each of their respective leagues this season en route to the World Series.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026
Other organizations linked to Page, including Flu Lab LLC, One Aero, and Oceankind, were also incorporated in Delaware that month, after previously being in California, Rogelberg’s analysis of state filings found.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

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Building repairs can bring equipment or barriers into common areas, and unfinished work may leave a space looking different from the way residents normally encounter it.

— Emma Clapp, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Birds breeding in one part of the continent may travel one route and encounter one set of environmental conditions, while members of the same species experience a completely different set of conditions along another route.

— Amy L. Scarpignato, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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