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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

“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

But the Permian drive sputtered and it was time for Wyles to agonize his way through another field goal, this one from the 30 instead of the 31.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

He agonizes over the decisions he made: Could he have saved more people?

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Lately, she agonizes over what she doesn’t know.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023

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

He was a demon workaholic in the editing room and agonized for weeks over rewrites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

What if the destruction of your planet left you with a permanent case of agonized alienation, and you became a weird, antisocial loner who hung out in bars drinking alone?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

All week I’d agonized about what movie would be my emotionally laden farewell salute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

“It was agonizing and just felt to learn this is beyond me,” Mandell told The Times in 2007.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Awkwardness is to Mr. Fielder what explosions are to Michael Bay, and he revels in the long, bizarre takes in which she maintains a frozen facial expression for agonizing periods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

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

Summer of 1918—Breath of hope that sweeps over the scorched fields, raging fever of impatience, of disappointment, of the most agonizing terror of death, insensate question: Why?

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque