agonize

That gave staffers roughly a month to agonize over whether they would be on the list, some of them in public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Oh, the visitors will agonize over some of the bizarre calls, some deserving of further explanation from the NFL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025

Refusing even a hint of introspection, she added: “We don’t agonize over what happened. We organize about what comes next.”

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2024

When they wed, their fans swoon; when stars divorce, people agonize over what went wrong.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024

Mom said when she and Dad visited him, Poppy would be hurting so much he could hardly talk, and Dad would agonize over it for days afterward.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

In 1415, on the eve of challenging France at the Battle of Agincourt, he agonizes about the moral burdens of kingship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Tellez left Citrus College in October 2020 and still agonizes over the decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

When semaglutide agonizes these receptors, it tells the body to make more insulin.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022

Months later, she still fights feeling of resentment mixed with worry and agonizes over her belief that her return to work had left her mother more vulnerable to Covid.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2022

Additional copies have been filed elsewhere for posterity and safekeeping, as the desk copies often meet such gruesome fates while Chandresh agonizes over every word.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

“I agonized for a long time over whether to keep that job,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Faisuris Alvarez, who runs a beachside fish stand, agonized aloud over these questions without answers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

Inside, she loaded up on cosmetics and agonized over the instant noodles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

“That’s what agonized him so much — that when you record things, they are forever.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Collins stood outside for several agonizing minutes, hearing their muffled voices.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Inside, under flickering lights, a group of reluctant strangers is coaxed into acting out, in a converted gymnasium, a wild tale promising redemption from agonizing tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

They had already waited four agonizing days for Venezuela’s bureaucracy to approve permits for them to enter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

They spent an agonizing two months apart, writing each other letters to stay in touch.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi