staggering
Example Sentences
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As for its more “traditional” features, the home boasts a staggering 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms that are dotted around its vast 38,000-square-foot interior.
From MarketWatch
Last month the country's defence minister revealed that a staggering 200,000 soldiers were absent without leave.
From BBC
His methods were shrewd—“Working with Mother Nature, instead of against her,” Bamberger liked to say—but also, when necessary, backed by staggering capital investments from the fortune he had amassed as a fast-food tycoon.
Analysts at MoffettNathanson crunched the numbers and concluded “the capital needs would be simply enormous” and require “a staggering amount of external financing.”
From MarketWatch
It is a staggering fall for a man whose political life was spent at the heart of the Labour party.
From BBC
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