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staggering

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noun

staggering

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verb

present participle of stagger

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of staggering
Adjective
That’s five shows at three different venues totaling some 15 hours in music and a staggering 88 songs performed — with not one single repeat. Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025 The nominees for the 51st American Music Awards have been announced, and Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with a staggering 10 nominations — the most of any artist this year. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 23 Apr. 2025 That was a staggering 15-fold increase over GPT-4o, which is priced at just $10 per million tokens. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2025 In his first at-bat of the season, against San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb, Neto rocketed a 106-mph one-hopper that sent Giants shortstop Willy Adames staggering. Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for staggering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for staggering
Adjective
  • Tom Hanks narrates this examination of the astonishing variety of life on a supercontinent stretching from northern Canada to the bottom of South America.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This is the astonishing dialectical power of the moment.
    D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • And just having that extra note to bring to him from Disney, from Mulan, was amazing.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • On the more fun side of the craft spectrum, Kelvin’s outfits have always been amazing, but the sequin suit in this episode is really a highlight.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Craft is the connective tissue of our history, weaving itself through each iteration and enabling new players to interpret it in novel ways.
    Bill Connolly, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But police must notice a primary violation, such as speeding or weaving across lanes, to cite motorists for violating the cellphone law.
    David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Cleaning professional Ryan Schutz of Two Maids and a Mop is sharing what a typical cleaning includes, as well as a few surprising areas a house cleaner probably won't clean.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But the surprising mid-season decision to trade the Slovenian superstar coupled with a slew of key injuries, including to star guard Kyrie Irving, ultimately derailed any title aspirations Dallas might have had.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • William Jackson Harper’s character, Chidi, with all his moral dilemmas and indecision, helps guide her, but in turn, learns to be more decisive through Eleanor’s impulsive courage.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Sanders is a sensitive topic in the Giants building, which reflects the organization’s indecision and ongoing deliberation about him.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But the $12 billion decline in his fortune has more to do with asset shuffling than stock price movement.
    Julie Goldenberg, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • James has been shuffling back and forth between the NBA and the G League.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • And Giuseppe Trevisani, wonderful guy, is my favorite excuse of all.
    Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
  • There’s the potential to still reach 94 points, which might not quite have the same sheen to it as the 99 points achieved by Liverpool’s last title-winning side in 2019-20 but should still be recognised as a wonderful achievement.
    Gregg Evans, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After years of hesitation, the national security space community is finally boarding the commercial space train, one that many of us have been pushing for since the early 2000’s.
    Charles Beames, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This time around, there’s no hesitation for Larsson.
    Tiana DeNicola, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Staggering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/staggering. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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