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"What never sat well with me was that my brother was not with a group of lads on a stag do," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The stag was shot by a Royal Parks wildlife officer, the charity said.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Featuring a 12-point stag on a Scottish Highland peak, it was commissioned by railway magnate Edward Betts and has passed through various private collections.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Life at the St. George Reef Lighthouse — a so-called stag station where no women or children were allowed — was brutal and lonely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

“There is a story,” Ash said, “of a stag that runs into a valley, and of the huntress who followed it.”

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

On the positive side, Fitbit stags who bought into the IPO but sold soon after the stock went public made fast profits of up to 150%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Most of our pets don’t pull carts, hunt stags, herd sheep or detect drugs, where we need to ensure correct performance.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Together, they gambol like the stags in the poem.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

Stags with big antlers score more often than stags with small ones.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022

I half expected to see stags and wild boars on the runway.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff

He clambered laboriously from the shallows, the water draining from the bottom of his "stagged" trousers.

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

"For we don't really want to go to the seminary; we go to school here in Milton," which peculiar association of ideas rather stagged General MacKenzie.

From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

They were tangible annoyances, imps in stagged trousers and imps in calico dresses.

From Lost Farm Camp by Harry Herbert Knibbs

A number of loggers were present, dressed in the invariable mackinaw, stagged overalls and caulked shoes.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

But, howsomdever, the farmer came wi 'um, and a waundy big dog that stagged me, and barked like fury.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging."

From Time Magazine Archive

"I should cut the concern," said Watson, "and take to stagging in Surrey."

From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope

The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

But too many of the cadets were "stagging it" that night.

From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

A young stripling or two may drop in, stagging it.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell