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  • verb Present participle of stumble.
  • noun The motion of one who stumbles.

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Examples

  • In all, the German sculptor this week placed 10 such memorial cubes, which he calls stumbling blocks (Stolpersteine) in German, into the Prague streetscape, his first batch in the Czech Republic.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2008

  • I thought it was a great post, but I think you took too long to get to the purely semantic issue of "Mature" meaning "sexy times and cursing" and "Mature" meaning "post-adolescent," since that double-meaning seems to be the main stumbling block of any conversation of this sort.

    Speaking Of Maturity SVGL 2009

  • Having worked through Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, Shuttle, and ISS, I think bureaucracy is the main stumbling block for progress.

    Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009

  • But I think the main stumbling block is a jurisdictional dispute that has existed for years in the Senate about which committee should have jurisdiction over this legislation.

    House Passes Bill Aimed At Chinese Currency 2010

  • But I think the main stumbling block is a jurisdictional dispute that has existed for years in the Senate about which committee should have jurisdiction over this legislation.

    House Passes Bill Aimed At Chinese Currency 2010

  • “Hey Watts, if you actually paid attention, it sounds like McCain stumbling into this thing is part of the reason it got derailed.”

    Waldo Jaquith - Super McCain to the res—. D’oh. Too late. 2008

  • With the toolbar installed, you can now begin stumbling by clicking on the Stumble! button.

    Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » August 2008

  • I found it so awesome that I just had to babble about it here! xD Yeah, yeah, I might be way late in stumbling across [...]

    August « 2008 « Undercover 2008

  • Hey Watts, if you actually paid attention, it sounds like McCain stumbling into this thing is part of the reason it got derailed.

    Waldo Jaquith - Super McCain to the res—. D’oh. Too late. 2008

  • I think a main stumbling block in this debate is that we hopelessly confuse what to do about the illegals who have been here in the U.S. for some time now, working, raising families, etc., and a more general immigration policy beyond this specific and important issue.

    Matthew Yglesias » More Immigration 2007

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