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Recent Examples of agonize Hollywood studios and craftspeople may be busy agonizing over the proper role of AI’s potential within the film industry, but Chinese studios aren’t slowing down. Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025 The balance between short-term risk and long-term reward seems well-tuned for those who like to agonize over every potential decision. Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2025 Christiansen said he’s dismayed by the changing landscape of college athletics with the transfer portal and NIL (name, image and likeness) money, and every coach agonizes on how to spread 11.7 scholarships over a 35-man roster. Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2025 Independent producers and sales agents agonized over what many of them see as an existential threat to their business. Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for agonize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agonize
Verb
  • On the other hand, there’s room in America for Afrikaners from South Africa, the white minority of Dutch origin who claim they are being persecuted and subject to violence inflicted by the majority Black population.
    Howard Simon, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
  • We have been persecuted, exiled, shunned and murdered, simply for our beliefs.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • The Oscar winner has starred in the Apple TV+ comedy series about grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) since its premiere in 2023.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 15 July 2025
  • Some endure long journeys through illness, others face the shock of an instant tragedy, and some grieve companions with paws instead of words.
    Belal Aftab, Mercury News, 13 July 2025
Verb
  • Mohammad Omar had been plagued with medical problems since birth.
    Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
  • That’s the kind of problem that leads to the rodent Rose Parade that’s plagued other restaurants on this street.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 21 July 2025
Verb
  • Fans mourn full Thursday programming lineup at Bonnaroo Starting the festival's programming on Thursday night, instead of the typical inclusion of a full Thursday line-up in past years, has also been the source of some contention.
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025
  • On Thursday, those who played with Braman also mourned his death.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • The price transparency problem afflicting hospitals exemplifies the problem.
    Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Her brother Aaron, afflicted with the same condition, had passed away in 2019.
    David Epstein, ProPublica, 18 July 2025
Verb
  • Tears falling down a face like rain pulled by gravity, slowly building into a downpour—that raw, aching emotion sits at the core of Givēon’s artistry.
    Malik Peay, Essence, 11 July 2025
  • These also can result in worsening pain with activity, aching and swelling.
    Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Luis Leon, who received political asylum in the United States in 1987 after being tortured under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime, misplaced his wallet that held his legal residency card, according to Allentown, Pennsylvania, newspaper The Morning Call.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • Editor’s Pick From assassination plots to torture programs, the agency’s darkest operations have always been at the President’s behest.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Verb
  • The woman sighed and brushed her hair back over her forehead.
    Christopher Urban, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • When the conversation turned to the subject of their costar in the Zombies sequels, Chandler Kinney, who also fell just short of the Mirrorball on Dancing With the Stars season 33, Manheim sighed.
    Ryan Coleman Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025

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