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What's "staggering" mean? I only saw it to be used as a verb, but here, it seems it' used as an adjective?

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Rebecca

Yeah, that's right, here it's an adjective! It means shocking or astonishing. Ex: They racked up a staggering 13 billion US dollars. Ex: The government's decision was staggering. Ex: The mountain was a staggering 8,800 meters tall.

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