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“Hadar’s return provides some measure of comfort to a family that has lived with agonizing uncertainty and doubt for over 11 years,” the Hostages Families Forum, an advocacy group, said.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider vowed his team would be ready to bounce back despite the agonizing loss.

When a film so agonizing is immediately followed by empty, uninformative clickbait articles asking “where are they now” questions about still-grieving children, one has to wonder where the line is.

This is most obvious in the Middle East, with the agonizing ordeal of the surviving Israeli captives coming to a dramatic end this week.

Deprivation cuts the other way: isolation is “agonizing,” Mr. Rein tells us, “one of the worst fates a human can experience.”