- present participle of agonize.
agonizing
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“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
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
If the film doesn’t reach the heights of Mr. Lee’s previous work, it nonetheless has a gradually mounting force in its depiction of class differences and a patriarch burdened by an agonizing sense of failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
My brain processed his features one by one, in agonizing slowness.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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