agonize
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This way, we wouldn’t have to agonize over every ride and could even hop aboard to cross the Grand Canal without having to walk to the nearest bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
“We don’t agonize, we organize, and this day, today, we have scores of events across the country, starting in New York,” Pelosi echoed hours later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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
“Tonight. Isn’t it great? You won’t have to agonize through another whole day.”
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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
Miyazaki agonizes over the character of the Great Uncle who has built the fantastical world of the tower in “The Boy and The Heron.”
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
She agonizes over the loss of her relationship with Mimi, perhaps the love of her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
He agonizes over the decisions he made: Could he have saved more people?
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
For the rest of the play, Hamlet agonizes.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Faisuris Alvarez, who runs a beachside fish stand, agonized aloud over these questions without answers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
The decision to leave, which she had agonized over for months, had come to her in a split second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Only much later did I find out what agonized him, when I approached his booth and asked if he was taking requests.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
Kwangchul Youn was a mesmerizing storyteller as Gurnemanz; Brian Mulligan a poignant, agonized Amfortas; Falk Struckmann a powerful Klingsor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
He seemed so agonized that Bigger wondered why the men did not give him his belongings.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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
Pessina and her siblings began an agonizing search.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
“I want to get back to Venezuela in these agonizing hours,” Machado said in the video she published.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
In his third season with the Dodgers, rising star Andy Pages navigates the agonizing reality of being separated from his parents and sister as U.S.-Cuba relations face new flashpoints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Her expression of intense, agonizing curiosity said the rest, as did the excited way she pranced in place and the soundless giggles that she carefully muffled with her free hand.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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