agonizingly
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The movie also demonstrates the perils of trying to grasp hot topics of the moment via the agonizingly slow, multiyear Hollywood process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After an agonizingly long pause, Marx responded to Clark’s question.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
"We all know what we came for. And that's world records. And so to be that agonizingly close, it's frustrating," Proud said.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The Jamaicans hit the the woodwork three times in the second half, with substitute Bailey-Tye Cadamarteri going agonizingly close with a header that crashed off the post in the 87th minute.
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
Meanwhile, downloading software and MP3s was sometimes agonizingly slow; even worse, they’d gotten their butts kicked when they went online to play Quake or Half-Life against geeks who did have cable modems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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