stagger
Example Sentences
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But the staggering descriptions of Old World forests and the incredible human effort required to destroy them linger long after the saga concludes.
From Los Angeles Times
People across the country are staggering through the supermarket checkout line.
From MarketWatch
Lawmakers have also questioned whether the staggered release risks obscuring institutional responsibility rather than clarifying it.
From Salon
He said he felt worn down from 60-hour workweeks, with staggered schedules that would have him starting and finishing work at different times throughout the week.
“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering industrial-scale fraud,” Thompson said at a news conference Thursday.
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