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The phrase 'stagger on' is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to mean to continue on by making slow, unsteady progress, usually under difficult conditions. For example, "Though the odds were against them, they continued to stagger on in their pursuit of a better life."
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Banca di Roma may be condemned simply to stagger on alone.
If so, Russia will stagger on much as it is now: a large, poor, mostly backward place with a maddening habit of wasting its potential.
But, even so, the "impeachment process" will continue to stagger on awhile longer, because in our lawyer-plagued investigative culture, Washington is crawling with process zombies.
BBC2's The Fall is a textbook example of a show determined to stagger on, no matter how infuriating it gets.
Day in and day out, they were shooting in the depths of the world they were depicting, in the decaying row house neighborhoods that in Baltimore seem to stagger on forever, with the drug corners, tumbledown bars, boarded-up windows, rumble of demolition trucks, shriek of sirens.
Athens could rely on the large number of euros swimming around the economy and the stock of funds sitting inside the banking system to stagger on for several weeks, especially if the ECB maintains a facility for trading euros with domestic banks.
Last night, the Liberty seemed set to stagger on one occasion after another, but as exhausted as its players might have seemed, the Comets were unable to take advantage.
Some stagger on from one year to the next just managing to pass their exams but becoming more and more demoralised.
What influence India wields is subtle, he said, "a kind of grudging respect that India's democratic institutions, however flawed, do seem to work, they seem to stagger on from one day to the next".
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Maybury infiltrates the young British artists of the moment into the 1960s milieu of Bacon's cronies, some of whom perform stagger-on parts as themselves.
The spot then shows video from the show's first season, while a voiceover highlights Bing sweepstakes for a "stagger-on role," with the winner to be made up like a zombie to appear in a future episode.
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