staggering
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“What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering industrial-scale fraud,” Thompson said at a news conference Thursday.
The reality of all that was lost nearly a year ago is staggering.
From Los Angeles Times
The Netflix-backed spectacle, which reportedly will see the fighters split a staggering $184 million purse, has drawn fierce criticism, with many questioning why it was sanctioned.
From Barron's
Aggregated over the whole city, the total figure was a staggering $8.6 billion.
From Los Angeles Times
But that equates to 75% of Oracle’s projected revenue for the current fiscal year, a staggering amount considering that capex has averaged about 17% of annual revenue over the past five years.
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