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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of stagger.
  • adjective Astonished, taken aback.
  • adjective referring to something that has been arranged in a way that is not uniform

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  • Indeed, when the clothing company that bore his name staggered across the finish line a year ago, drained of cash and oxygen and wobbling on its last legs, it looked less like a veteran marathoner than the victim of a street mugging.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • Indeed, when the clothing company that bore his name staggered across the finish line a year ago, drained of cash and oxygen and wobbling on its last legs, it looked less like a veteran marathoner than the victim of a street mugging.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • Indeed, when the clothing company that bore his name staggered across the finish line a year ago, drained of cash and oxygen and wobbling on its last legs, it looked less like a veteran marathoner than the victim of a street mugging.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • Indeed, when the clothing company that bore his name staggered across the finish line a year ago, drained of cash and oxygen and wobbling on its last legs, it looked less like a veteran marathoner than the victim of a street mugging.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • The policy will also be tweaked to include the word "staggered" to amplify the government's understanding that employees begin the work day at different hours.

    Government updates weather closings policy 2011

  • The policy will also be tweaked to include the word "staggered" to amplify the government's understanding that employees begin the work day at different hours.

    Government updates weather closings policy 2011

  • Given how obvious the above is, one is once again staggered by the absolute bottomlessness for your capacity for infantile stupidity.

    Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment 2010

  • When the "Wealth of Nations" appeared, Britain staggered under massive war spending and a colossal national debt.

    A Wealth Of Ideas Jeffrey Collins 2010

  • I remain staggered by the remarkable impact of student teaching on candidates -- for good and bad.

    Gary Stager: Why Should she Work for you? Gary Stager 2010

  • The recruits are among 10,500 - taken on by the UK's largest force between 2001 and 2003 - who are being sent for training in staggered intakes.

    Archive 2005-05-08 Laban 2005

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