stumble across

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stumble across (third-person singular simple present stumbles across, present participle stumbling across, simple past and past participle stumbled across)

  1. (transitive) To discover or find (something) by accident.
    • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36:
      This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.
  2. (transitive) To meet (somebody) by chance.

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