staggering

Ordinary skilled workers, by contrast, now face a staggering application fee just to apply for the same H-1B status they’ve used for decades.

After bringing her novels to the screen, including “To All the Boys” and its spin-off “XO, Kitty” on Netflix and now her powerhouse “Summer” series, the popularity of her adaptations has been staggering.

For decades, America has been the largest donor to Afghanistan, and in 2024, US funds made up a staggering 43% of all aid coming into the country.

One Whitehall insider told me it was "staggering - either they skipped the process of any basic due diligence, or they did that process and missed the obvious questions".

A staggering sum, yes, but also a familiar pattern: a real, systemic problem quietly stacking up, while local news cycles fixate on the heroic interventions that never actually solve it.