agonizing

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Wood had been agonizing over what to say to convince the board to spare his life.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Although Manuel, Barker and Miss J pass the buck plenty of times, too, the agonizing recall of their collective firing in 2012 allows them to come off more sympathetically.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

When Murphy’s desperate friends finally found him and dug him out after 18 agonizing minutes, he was blue and not breathing, according to witnesses.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

The boot-up sequence of our test car’s touch screen required several agonizing seconds to execute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

What followed was an agonizing week of waiting for Evan to call me back to say that, yes, he was going to prom with me.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi