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
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
Very soon the spider began to stagger as though it were drunk.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
After pulling himself together, Berenger staggers into town to meet Jean for a morning drink before work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
When he staggers out, two hours later, he has won no fabulous prizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023
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
Quetzalcoatl staggers across the desert, reenacted in this weird dream just like a scene out of a librex.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Most shares owned by insiders are subject to a complicated, staggered lockup schedule that allows certain amounts of stock to be released at a time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
He creates a buffer ETF ladder with staggered reset dates and maturities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The 29-year-old civil servant left the retail car park at 13:30 and staggered through her front door at 23:00.
From BBC ● 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
Then this lonely, exhausted man staggered in, looking as beaten as a Jack Russell who’d picked a fight with a Rottweiler.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
"There's 40 trillion reasons why I would agree with a fiscal conservative," Osborn said, referring to the staggering US national debt, which recently passed the $40 trillion mark.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The final sale price represents a staggering $5.3 million discount from the $10.95 million Behar originally sought when she first put the historic home on the market in late 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Taken together, the range of Hemphill’s music is staggering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Woods checked into rehab shortly after that incident, saying his efforts to manage insomnia and pain from his staggering number of back surgeries on his own was a mistake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Chaos—candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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