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Definition of stumble across phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

stumble across

phrasal verb

Phrasal Verbs

to discover something or someone unexpectedly Police have stumbled across a huge drug ring. I stumbled across Thompson outside the hotel.

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