staggered
adjective
arranged in a series of alternating or continually overlapping intervals of time.
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R. Schmidt, being a good sailor and a hardy young chap, albeit a prince of royal blood, was abroad early, after a breakfast that staggered the few who remained unstaggered up to that particular crisis.
From The Prince of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr