Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a staggering or reeling manner; with hesitation or doubt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a staggering manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb degree To a
breathtaking degree. - adverb manner In a
staggering way; with astagger
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb extremely
Etymologies
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Examples
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The disclosure led to calls for new measures to reduce what the authors called "staggeringly high" levels of smoking among pregnant women.
Birth defects linked for first time to smoking in pregnancy 2011
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While a recent study by a Beijing hospital found 14 percent of China's national divers had damaged retinas because of heavy training, a percentage doctors describe as staggeringly high.
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While a recent study by a Beijing hospital found 14 percent of China's national divers had damaged retinas because of heavy training, a percentage doctors describe as staggeringly high.
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He landed the gig after getting to know Danny John Jules, more widely known as the staggeringly shallow Cat in the surreal space sitcom.
unknown title 2009
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Brandon Adcock, general manager of Bateleur Business Planning, said in a statement the purchasing of condoms was "staggeringly" low when one considered the vast majority of South Africans who were sexually active.
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Few words have strayed so staggeringly far from their roots as disco, the American shortening of discothèque, a word English-speakers discovered in Paris in the mid-1950s.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Few words have strayed so staggeringly far from their roots as disco, the American shortening of discothèque, a word English-speakers discovered in Paris in the mid-1950s.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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This is of course true, but the idea that this is not true of any language spoken on the planet is so obviously, staggeringly dense that explanations for why it's stupid are unnecessary.
Boing Boing 2009
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With Harmonix's access to a staggeringly large library of original masters, the iPhone game is able to do what none of the others can: make the music itself reactive to your play.
Boing Boing 2009
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Brazil is employing a version of an idea now in use in some 40 countries around the globe, one already successful on a staggeringly enormous scale.
An anti-poverty program that works Ezra Klein 2011
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