agony
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"Living like this is agony," said Meyboll Font, a 51-year-old self-employed social media community manager.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
From Fort Lee, across the Hudson, Gen. George Washington watched the catastrophe in agony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Even in that near-suicidal early segment, note how Knoxville stays on his feet, enduring agony with a magician’s “Ta-da!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
"We are missing her. We are going through agony."
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony,
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
But tragedy, an exploration of human misery, dates back to the Greeks and expresses agonies as old as our species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“It’s this tight knot of agonies, and humiliations, and social problems, and this is experienced by millions of us in the richest country in the history of the world.”
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
Almost as if they were, briefly, spectators watching the agonies of two strangers.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
This one has a hose attached to a motor that slowly lowers the oxygen level to mimic, as faithfully as possible, the agonies of fitful sleep at extreme altitude: headaches, dry mouth, cerebral malaise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
I had enough small agonies of my own.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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