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Recent Examples of agonize But even as Hope’s situation improved, Kotb agonized over the demands on her time. Charlotte Triggs, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 Other niche fragrance companies were being bought up by conglomerates—Estée Lauder had bought Le Labo in 2014, and Frédéric Malle the following year—but Kurkdjian agonized for two years before selling. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024 Since at least 2022, Haiti’s neighbors have agonized openly over the spread of insurgent armed groups in the Caribbean nation. Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024 While several lawmakers are publicly declaring their allegiance to Biden, they are rivaled by those who have spent the past week agonizing over his future and expressing grave doubts that the 81-year-old could defeat Donald Trump in November. Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 8 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for agonize 
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Verb
  • Like Oya and Elphaba, Céline tells her story from the perspective of the persecuted.
    Anita Kopacz, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Set aside the fact that Trump never persecuted his political enemies during his first term, including Hilary Clinton.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In a nuanced performance, Ms. Nakayama played two roles: Hiroko, a grieving woman who sends a letter to an old address for her dead fiancé, Itsuki Fujii; and another woman, who happens to also be named Itsuki Fujii and who responds to the letter, starting an epistolary relationship between the two.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Another person named through crowdsourcing turned out to be a missing college student who had died by suicide prior to the bombings, and the finger-pointing subjected his grieving family to threats.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Karlsson is starting to eliminate the bad decisions that plagued him during the season’s first month.
    Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Saudi Arabia was confirmed as the host of the 2034 World Cup, a controversial move as all eyes turn to its human rights record and concerns following migrant worker abuses that plagued Qatar’s 2022 World Cup.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The 49ers wasted no more time mourning their previous three straight defeats, from the last-minute loss to Seattle here to the ensuing blowouts in Green Bay (38-10) and Buffalo (35-10).
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Lord John, who also copes by getting rip-roaring drunk, refuses to let Claire mourn Jamie alone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The findings, published in the journal PLOS Biology, point to innovative strategies for combating a disease that afflicts millions annually.
    Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The pastor asked the group to name some of the plagues that afflicted Egypt.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Navy Beats Army in 1963: The Football Game That Paid Tribute to JFK Watch on The game was originally scheduled for November 30—just eight aching days after the assassination.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2024
  • What are the symptoms of flu? Either version of flu typically has these symptoms: Sore throat Runny or stuffy nose Fever Cough Chest congestion Headache Muscle aches Feeling very tired Sweating and chills Nausea Diarrhea Stomach pain The stomach issues are more common in children than adults.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As the Assads lived a life of luxury, their regime locked up, tortured and killed thousands of its citizens.
    Richard Engel, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Throughout the decades of the Assads’ rule, resistance of any kind was brutally quashed, and offenders were detained and tortured in a network of dozens of facilities across the country.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But if musicals and men in burlap skirts aren’t your thing, sigh, then there’s still a lot more to watch this weekend.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The wind sighs three strong children, one consumptive and two gone.
    Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

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“Agonize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agonize. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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