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stumbling

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈstʌmblɪŋ//
  • //ˈstʌmbl̩ɪŋ//

The motion of one who stumbles.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stumblepresent participle and gerund of stumble

noun

  1. 1

    The motion of one who stumbles.

    Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn.

Forms

plural
stumblings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).