- present participle of stagger.
staggering
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The film, newly restored from Greaves’ father William’s original offering, captures a staggering array of luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance reflecting on the period during a four-hour cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in 1972.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
That way, Musk can rescue the Tesla balance sheet and use the combined companies to do what he does best: raise staggering amounts of money from the public markets.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Despite those staggering figures, the brown dwarf is so massive that this material loss represents only a tiny portion of its total mass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
“Possible Love”: Lee Chang-dong is among South Korea’s finest directors, but he works at his own unhurried pace—this is his first film since 2018’s “Burning,” which followed the similarly staggering “Poetry” of 2010.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
I might be starving, and I might be that nameless boy the others saw staggering through the ranks by midday, but I wasn’t dead yet.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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