agonies

plural of agony
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Noun
  • Black people, especially in America, have been subjected to the horrors of history.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In the show, Ed is inspired by a comic book about Koch titled The Bitch of Buchenwald, given to him by Adeline, suggesting that her sadistic treatment of Jews during the Holocaust led to Gein’s house of horrors in Wisconsin.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • The medium-firm memory foam balances a cozy, sink-in feeling with actual support that won’t leave you with aches and pains come morning.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Attack largest of war on Lviv, Governor says A Reuters correspondent heard explosions booming across the dark morning sky as air defenses engaged targets from several directions.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Jump cuts punctuated by the sound of explosions move us incrementally downstream, ultimately out and over the Pacific Ocean.
    Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The latter may scoff at the idea of a nostalgic horror movie, but anyone who's had the urge to peek through their fingers as nightmares unfold in front of them knows that fear can be both cathartic and illuminating.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The timing isn't ideal, as the Browns travel to London to face Brian Flores' Minnesota defense, whose complex, blitz-heavy schemes seem a thing of nightmares for rookie passers.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The authors produced models for a scenario in which methane is released in plume-like outbursts.
    Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Macmillan has a musician's kind of knack for sculpting outbursts, rants and other verbal arias.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Falling support in Gaza Palestinian public pressure on Hamas has risen as the miseries of war have mounted.
    Mkhaimar Abusada, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Which is not always easy, given that Bellingham is ultimately a player for dominant moments and sudden bursts rather than someone who controls whole games.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Shot with both lyrical intimacy and bursts of vibrant energy, the film portrays the quiet revolution of a boy refusing to surrender his identity.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Agonies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agonies. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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