Find
Find verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Stumble across and find are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stumble across" instead a verb "Find".
Stumble across
Find and stumble across are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Find" instead a verb "Stumble across".
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You take it upon yourself to find the source of the sudden famine that has stricken your land, only to stumble across a plot by the god of famine.
Source: Video Game / Puzzle Quest - Once in a great while, the invaders manage to stumble across the answer... only to find themselves imprisoned in a small room unless they can solve a problem from derivative calculus.
Source: Only Smart People May Pass -
Guilty Pleasures: If Reese follows you downstairs while you're trying to find clues to what's going on, you stumble across a partially hidden book called "The Witching Hour", which at first appears to be about magic.
Source: Visual Novel / Hustle Cat
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