stagger
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Governments are planning to release their reserves to the market over several months to stagger the effect, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Brown managed to stagger out of Buck’s apartment to a nearby gas station, where he called 911.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Asian investors battled Wednesday to kickstart a recovery in equities following the latest stagger across world markets that has been caused by worries over an AI-fuelled bubble and uncertainty over US interest rates.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Somewhere half past exhaustion, we stagger back to Café Iruña.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
No longer riding a wave of adrenaline, my head once again feels larger than my body, and I stagger through the corridors until I reach the end of the staterooms.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Lakers coach JJ Redick staggers the use of Luka Doncic and LeBron James in an effort to develop offensive cohesion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Still in her wedding dress, she staggers out to the street shrieking, “Is everybody gay???”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
A middle-aged man staggers into the bar and dances and sings along to a song in the Kikuyu language before slumping on one of the benches to join his friends.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2023
At this memory, another flood of homesickness staggers me.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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You can also mitigate duration risk by using a ladder strategy, buying bonds with staggered maturity dates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
I didn’t feel any affinity with the humanoid that smashed Bolt’s 100-meter record, but found the robot weightlifter that crumpled under a 15kg barbell and staggered into a table very relatable.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Still, because the homes are staggered up a hillside, upward of 100 properties could gain a better lake view from the poisoned trees’ removal, according to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
"I was moved, overwhelmed and staggered actually that people were coming from far and wide," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
At noon, eight drivers left Kaltag in staggered order.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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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
A summer survey from the Guardian showed a staggering 95% of respondents think the US is in an affordability crisis.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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