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staggering

[stag-uh-ring] / ˈstæg ə rɪŋ /


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"Staggering" cuts to its funding mean it has had to drastically cut aid packages to millions in need, it said this week.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

His 2000 debut, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” was a lightly fictionalized memoir that introduced readers to Eggers’ ironized yet deeply moving storytelling.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

"In a weird way, he seemed kind of like the grown-up in the crypto world," said Zeke Faux, an investigative journalist and author of Money Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023

On Friday’s episode of What Next: TBD, I spoke with Faux, also the author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, about crypto’s flight toward the sun—or was it the moon?

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

Staggering and exhausted, they climbed out of the swamp and mist, past the twisted, dark-leaved trees, onto land where grass grew again.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda




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