agonize

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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

I agonize over the amount of plastic we can’t avoid using and mourn the monarch butterflies that have vanished.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

When they wed, their fans swoon; when stars divorce, people agonize over what went wrong.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2024

Others agonize over whether they will again see their son, their mother, their brother.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023

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