stagger

This pair, portrayed by Nicholas Braun and Kara Young, stumble and stagger through life collecting scars like other people collect stamps or baseball cards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

One way to mitigate this would be for different regions to stagger their school summer holidays, suggests Which?

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

“They stagger exactly like sleepwalkers,” said one sur- vivor; “like walking ghosts” said another.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Laddering simply means buying CDs with staggered maturity dates — for example, one that matures in six months, another in a year, and another later still.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

One source claimed that the invitees’ arrival times were staggered such that there were A, B, C, and D lists.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Those agencies are often structured as multimember commissions with staggered, time-limited terms.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

She’s driving past homes here, finding their prices on websites, is staggered by the bang for the buck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

He staggered, tripped, and fell hands-first into the icy lake.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

"Paper documents accumulate at a staggering scale," says one employee at a Japanese hospital, who asked not to be named.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The staggering $1.4 trillion in alleged damages comes from estimating the number of affected users in the four states.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

A search for one man’s remains underscores the staggering humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where thousands of bodies are trapped beneath millions of tons of rubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

That staggering leap in productivity didn’t yield a 99% unemployment rate—it freed labor to build everything else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

She bumped into another tree and pinballed through the heavy smoke and heat, Sue staggering along behind her.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz