as in bitterly
with feelings of bitterness or grief
agonizingly made the decision to have her beloved cat put to sleep
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Recent Examples of agonizingly
There’s been an agonizingly slow rate of reinvestment here.
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Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
The other is the agonizingly good stunt coordination by Julian Spencer that makes men slide in the mud frantically trying to grab and snap each other’s fingers.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Mike Holloway had come agonizingly close before.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2026
Fletcher is a bruising back who could have gone to the NFL this past spring, but chose to stick around Coral Gables and take another crack at winning a national championship after the Canes fell agonizingly close in January.
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Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
By online standards, though, the wait to bring charges—just a few days—was agonizingly long, and Dhillon complained on X about MAGA supporters heckling her to move faster.
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Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
Instead, we’re treated to a series of agonizingly torpid scenes in which Nita and her co-workers are incepted by the power of Adam’s fiction, which comes to assume the force of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
One hundred days is an agonizingly long time for a family to go without answers about their missing loved one.
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Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
But the rollouts were agonizingly slow.
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Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
6 May 2026
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
The other is the agonizingly good stunt coordination by Julian Spencer that makes men slide in the mud frantically trying to grab and snap each other’s fingers.
—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026
Mike Holloway had come agonizingly close before.
—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2026
Fletcher is a bruising back who could have gone to the NFL this past spring, but chose to stick around Coral Gables and take another crack at winning a national championship after the Canes fell agonizingly close in January.
—
Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
By online standards, though, the wait to bring charges—just a few days—was agonizingly long, and Dhillon complained on X about MAGA supporters heckling her to move faster.
—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026
Instead, we’re treated to a series of agonizingly torpid scenes in which Nita and her co-workers are incepted by the power of Adam’s fiction, which comes to assume the force of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
14 May 2026
One hundred days is an agonizingly long time for a family to go without answers about their missing loved one.
—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
But the rollouts were agonizingly slow.
—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
6 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agonizingly
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With a goalkeeping howler and a red card, Marcelo Bielsa’s side self-imploded at the end of a bitterly disappointing tournament.
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And the organization’s internal splinter groups, the Soviet-leaning Weatherman Underground and the Maoist-leaning Progressive Labor faction fought each other bitterly.
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Little Debbie Apple Flips Though there are still plenty of Little Debbie classics filling the shelves at Southern grocery stores, and even new arrivals from time to time, there are also sadly some treats that have been discontinued.
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Its co-op is online-only (no couch play, sadly), and the AI companion is your trusty sidekick.
Adverb
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The Battle of Karbala — where a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad died defying tyranny — feels painfully present for residents of Nabatieh as Israel continues to occupy southern Lebanon.
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Iranian officials are also painfully aware that their country was bombed during previous periods of negotiations with the US since the war that broke out in late February.
Adverb
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Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
Adverb
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That means many households will be paying more per kilowatt-hour at the same time air conditioners are running longer and harder, a combination that can quickly drive up summer statements.
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Progressive lawmakers had pushed hard for state leaders to protect health care for undocumented immigrants.
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So is the moment early in the film when Mary mournfully looks on as her long-ago home faces demolition to make room for a big, featureless residential complex.
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Things are getting hot in Kayce's love life, even after the widower mournfully visits the East Camp memorial to his beloved wife, Monica Dutton (Kelsey Asbille).
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“Agonizingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agonizingly. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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