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
Rather than agonize over how to restore the landscape to some former, unobtainable baseline of “natural,” officials unanimously agreed that this bold re-imagining of the coast was the best way forward among no perfect options.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
He was by nature a decisive man, and although this was one of the great decisions of his life and he knew it, he made it quickly and did not agonize over it.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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
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
When semaglutide agonizes these receptors, it tells the body to make more insulin.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
For the rest of the play, Hamlet agonizes.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Do I even have a future? she agonized on loop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Faisuris Alvarez, who runs a beachside fish stand, agonized aloud over these questions without answers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
All week I’d agonized about what movie would be my emotionally laden farewell salute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
“That’s what agonized him so much — that when you record things, they are forever.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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
DiFeo, the Cadillac dealer, faces what he describes as an agonizing wait for fresh models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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
An hour passed in agonizing slowness as Doha sat with Minki’s family.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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