stumbled (on or onto)

past tense of stumble (on or onto)

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Verb
  • Electric Era, which was founded by SpaceX engineers, is ready to release its next product, one that is designed to address energy storage management and charging power demand concerns.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Now, Stern, who co-founded Apple Fitness+ and previously oversaw Ford's subscription services, aims to upgrade Peloton's products in an effort to match its wide range of class types with its hardware.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • At Fort Laramie, some of the commissioners also ran into familiar Native adversaries, encountered over years of military conflict.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Stumbled (on or onto).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumbled%20%28on%20or%20onto%29. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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