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stumble across/on/upon sth/sb
— Phrasal Verb with stumble /ˈstʌmbl/ verb [I]Definition
› to discover something by chance, or to meet someone by chance: I stumbled across these photographs while I was cleaning out my desk.
(Definition of stumble across/on/upon sth/sb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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