Vocabulary
Stumbling
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Tripping or losing balance while walking, moving with difficulty
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But we cannot create, or recreate, anything while flying blind, or stumbling in the dark.
- Instead, we saw a reactive state, stumbling from subsidies to bans, from imports to exports, without producing a coherent strategy.
- Without democratic input and oversight, Pakistan remains doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, stumbling from crisis to crisis while paying an ever-higher price.
- The IMF`s role should therefore extend beyond developing frameworks to help surmount the following five stumbling blocks.
- However, it is also becoming clear that there will be some major stumbling blocks.
Synonyms
Falter, Fall Down
Antonyms
Continue, Correct
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