stumble into

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Verb

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stumble into (third-person singular simple present stumbles into, present participle stumbling into, simple past and past participle stumbled into)

  1. (informal) To begin a course of action by accident, while intending to do something else.
    He stumbled into a firefighting career in his early 20s.