staggering

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One of the most staggering is simply pollution: a jungle riverbank heaped with trashed tires.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The asking price a couple of days earlier was a staggering $8,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Human rights group Vocal Africa said the discovery was a "staggering and horrific escalation that exposes the true scale of this tragedy".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Last year, consumers bought just $19 billion worth of them, out of a staggering $464 billion in total purchases of all kinds of annuities, the life-insurance industry group Limra has reported.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

The three living cows were staggering around in the deep snow and bawling unhappily.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier