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The phrase "agonizing choice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a decision that is extremely difficult or painful to make.
Example: "Choosing between my dream job and staying close to my family was an agonizing choice that kept me up at night."
Alternatives: "painful decision" or "difficult dilemma".
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It's an agonizing choice.
That is not an agonizing choice.
Mr. Kumar faced an agonizing choice.
Suspending Mr. Dopp was an agonizing choice for the governor.
This pressure has confronted President de la Madrid with an agonizing choice.
When seniors have to choose between buying medicine and food because of their meager incomes, that is an agonizing choice.
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Some agonizing choices will have to be made.
Spain has not been alone in making such agonizing choices.
Faced with applications seeking more than $2 billion, Judge Korman will have to make agonizing choices.
Yet after Hezbollah radicals began taking individual American hostages in Lebanon, Reagan found himself faced with the same kind of agonizing choices as Carter — to similar effect.
Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said, "A budget is a statement of moral choices, and this budget makes the wrong choices". The budget will pose particularly agonizing choices for the Republican majority.
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