Chance
Stumbling
Chance and stumbling are semantically related in happen upon topic. Sometimes you can use "Chance" instead a verb "Stumbling".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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As Watchmen, they are always stumbling across important clues (usually without realizing it) and surviving "million to one" events seemingly by chance.
Source: Born Lucky -
Contrived Coincidence: Many episodes have Sakura stumbling into a Clow Card by pure random chance.
Source: Manga / Card Captor Sakura -
It's not always good examples either—in Caves of Ice, though it's not quite a million to one shot, the chance of Cain and his squad stumbling across a Necron tomb are pretty damn low.
Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain
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