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an agonized cry of despair
one look at his agonized, tearful eyes and it was clear that something was terribly wrong
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This time, Trump was not the subject of agonized debate among the billionaires.
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Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
David Foster Wallace’s titular Depressed Person dwindles into existential nothingness, a speck of dust in the vacuum of her agonized solipsism.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
There’s ongoing catharsis in the powerful expression of this sometimes personally agonized material, whoever wrote all of it, as the sing-and scream-alongs would indicate.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Researchers suggest that the woman may have been afflicted by a rare muscle reaction at the moment of death that immortalized her agonized expression.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
David Foster Wallace’s titular Depressed Person dwindles into existential nothingness, a speck of dust in the vacuum of her agonized solipsism.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
There’s ongoing catharsis in the powerful expression of this sometimes personally agonized material, whoever wrote all of it, as the sing-and scream-alongs would indicate.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Researchers suggest that the woman may have been afflicted by a rare muscle reaction at the moment of death that immortalized her agonized expression.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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“Agonized.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agonized. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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