stagger
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New Yorkers, by contrast, stagger under tax and cost burdens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
They stagger their appliance use in the mornings, checking that a fan isn’t running at the same time as the coffeemaker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
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
Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
My marks had plummeted, while the rest of the school tried to stagger on like everything was normal.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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
As an “inflorescence” — a plant structure containing hundreds of male and female flowers at the base — the plant usually staggers its bloom to avoid self-pollination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
She staggers a little, and a bowl of hot vegetable soup topples off her tray and lands on my sneakers.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
It’s hard not to be a little staggered by Sullivan’s ascent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
The fund holds more than 50 autocallables with staggered five-year maturities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
She staggered backward and crashed against the wall.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
But it’s their palpable trust in one another that’s staggering.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
While about 10% of all the coins launched turned out to be outright scams, the figure for those endorsed by so-called celebrities was a staggering 45% to 48%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
After years of effort, Merck could make only a few grams at a time, at staggering cost, with no clear therapeutic opportunity to justify further investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And if we have to pick a season, it must be his record-breaking 2024-25 campaign when the Egyptian produced a staggering 344 points.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Still laughing, even staggering with the force of his laughter, Gebu moved on toward the stairway and up the steps to his room, leaving Ranofer standing silent in the moonlight.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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