Plays and Stumbles

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Stumbles and plays are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stumbles" instead a verb "Plays".

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Plays and stumbles are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plays" instead a verb "Stumbles".

The Anticipator: Thranduil plays with this trope: Bilbo uses the ring to disappear, and he stumbles onto the chambers of Legolas's father, Thranduil.

Source: Film / The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Alan Ruck plays a scientist who stumbles across a possible cure for his paraplegic son, and becomes so desperate to perfect it that he kills several other crippled people that he used for test subjects.

Source: Series / Fringe
Meanwhile Liotta plays Dean, the last man the women conned, who wants a second chance with Max and stumbles across their con."Trope Alert": Abusive Parent: Max isn't exactly Joan Crawford but she's willing to trip her daughter on a concrete floor just to gain a free hotel room.

Source: Film / Heartbreakers

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