Stagger
verb
To walk or move unsteadily, almost falling.
After drinking too much, he was staggering down the street.
verb
To shock or greatly surprise.
The news staggered me for a moment.
verb
To arrange (events, payments, hours etc) so that they do not occur at the same time.
We need to stagger the deadlines so that we don't have to do everything at once.
noun
An unsteady movement back and forth.
With a stagger, he tried to gain his balance.
verb
To walk or move unsteadily, almost falling.
After drinking too much, he was staggering down the street.
verb
To shock or greatly surprise.
The news staggered me for a moment.
verb
To arrange (events, payments, hours etc) so that they do not occur at the same time.
We need to stagger the deadlines so that we don't have to do everything at once.
noun
An unsteady movement back and forth.
With a stagger, he tried to gain his balance.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Condition
Used when someone's ability to walk straight is impaired, often by alcohol or exhaustion.
The exhausted hiker staggered toward the camp.
Pro Tip 2/2Difficult Recovery
Suggests a struggle to stay upright or move forward, not just clumsiness.
She staggered to her feet after the fall.
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and they had a long phone call. At the end of the call, the journalist threw in a question that seemed like a sort of softball. He said to him, "Your kids must love the iPad." There's an obvious answer to this, but what Jobs said really staggered the journalist. He was very surprised, because he said, "They haven't used it.
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Which country does the...
and that's what they've promised their populations they're going to deliver. So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, why do some people prefer one country more than another? And the answer that the database gave me completely staggered me.
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
And sometimes you can see it even closer than that, because the heads on ships -- that's toilets, for any land lovers that are listening -- are flushed with unfiltered seawater that often has bioluminescent plankton in it. So, if you stagger into the head late at night and you're so toilet-hugging sick
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Can we edit memories? PIPE...
which muscles should you tense and by how much so that you don't get blown off? I'll be staggered if you can give the answers to those questions. But if you can ride a bike, you do have the answers, you're just not consciously aware of them.
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Never, ever give up PIPE...
and I was there for years. And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean. But the point is, and the point was, that every day of our lives is epic. And I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach, staggered up onto that beach
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
that I was truly staggered in this next slide don't gasp yes I know it's exciting isn't it there was a little hole in the ground two and a half meters wide two meters deep and that is highly unusual that cluster of trees I saw was
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Why we love, why we...
as if I had asked them to pass the salt. I was just staggered by it. So we scanned their brains, looking at a photograph of their sweetheart and looking at a neutral photograph, with a distraction task in between.
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The power of women's...
and the awareness that it brings of our precarity. So we do several things. If men knew how often women were filled with white hot rage when we cried, they would be staggered. We use minimizing language.
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Hunting Grouse PIPE The...
moving one at a time norms goal is to minimize noise and remain undetected to their potential target the strategy here's the less presence less footsteps least amount of noise so we stagger each other
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A COVID-19 "exit"...
and still get a lot of productivity, basically, having the lines almost running continuously that way? Exactly. So this is a staggered version of this idea,
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Why our screens make us...
and they had a long phone call. At the end of the call, the journalist threw in a question that seemed like a sort of softball. He said to him, "Your kids must love the iPad." There's an obvious answer to this, but what Jobs said really staggered the journalist. He was very surprised, because he said, "They haven't used it.
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Which country does the...
and that's what they've promised their populations they're going to deliver. So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it, why do some people prefer one country more than another? And the answer that the database gave me completely staggered me.
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Edith Widder: Glowing...
And sometimes you can see it even closer than that, because the heads on ships -- that's toilets, for any land lovers that are listening -- are flushed with unfiltered seawater that often has bioluminescent plankton in it. So, if you stagger into the head late at night and you're so toilet-hugging sick
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Can we edit memories? PIPE...
which muscles should you tense and by how much so that you don't get blown off? I'll be staggered if you can give the answers to those questions. But if you can ride a bike, you do have the answers, you're just not consciously aware of them.
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Never, ever give up PIPE...
and I was there for years. And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean. But the point is, and the point was, that every day of our lives is epic. And I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach, staggered up onto that beach
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Part Ape, Part Human:...
that I was truly staggered in this next slide don't gasp yes I know it's exciting isn't it there was a little hole in the ground two and a half meters wide two meters deep and that is highly unusual that cluster of trees I saw was
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Why we love, why we...
as if I had asked them to pass the salt. I was just staggered by it. So we scanned their brains, looking at a photograph of their sweetheart and looking at a neutral photograph, with a distraction task in between.
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The power of women's...
and the awareness that it brings of our precarity. So we do several things. If men knew how often women were filled with white hot rage when we cried, they would be staggered. We use minimizing language.
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Hunting Grouse PIPE The...
moving one at a time norms goal is to minimize noise and remain undetected to their potential target the strategy here's the less presence less footsteps least amount of noise so we stagger each other
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A COVID-19 "exit"...
and still get a lot of productivity, basically, having the lines almost running continuously that way? Exactly. So this is a staggered version of this idea,
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Hugo Claus
Belgian Novelist
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
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Matt Roper
British Comedian
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
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Phyllis Logan
Scottish Actress
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.
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Eric Stoltz
American Actor
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
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Barney Frank
American Politician
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Andrea McLean
Scottish Celebrity
I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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Alexander Armstrong
English Actor
I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.
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David Antin
American Poet
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
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Fritz Scholder
American Artist
We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
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Kevin Whately
English Actor
It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.
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Hugo Claus
Belgian Novelist
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
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Matt Roper
British Comedian
I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
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Phyllis Logan
Scottish Actress
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.
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Eric Stoltz
American Actor
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
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Barney Frank
American Politician
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Andrea McLean
Scottish Celebrity
I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
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Alexander Armstrong
English Actor
I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.
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David Antin
American Poet
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
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Fritz Scholder
American Artist
We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
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Kevin Whately
English Actor
It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.
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