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stumblings

stumblings is the plural of stumbling.

Meaning of stumbling

Noun

stumbling (plural stumblings)

  1. The motion of one who stumbles.
    • Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn.2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times

Questions about stumblings

What is stumblings the plural of?
Stumblings is the plural of stumbling.

Words near stumblings in the dictionary

  1. stumbling-stone
  2. stumbling-stones
  3. stumblingblock
  4. stumblingblocks
  5. stumblingly
  6. stumblings
  7. stumblingstone
  8. stumblingstones
  9. stumbly
  10. Stumbo
  11. Stumbos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stumblings (page history and authors); stumbling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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