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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agonizing task" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task that is extremely difficult, painful, or stressful to complete.
Example: "Completing the project on such a tight deadline felt like an agonizing task, leaving me exhausted and overwhelmed."
Alternatives: "excruciating chore" or "painful undertaking".
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He described how simply listing his favorite music became an agonizing task: "I never used to update this, thinking it was just too fraught a category (like Favorite Books still is, unless there's some joke to make).
ISIS' manslaughter in Paris has placed on Muslims across the world the agonizing task of self-definition and self-explanation.
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If you've ever taken your love life to the digital sphere, you're familiar with the stressful, agonizing and self-esteem destroying task that is creating your dating profile.
The absolute refusal to give up on your belief in yourself and your goal, even in spite of a thousand slamming doors, unreturned phone calls, rejection letters and agonizing echoes of crickets, is the most arduous task of all.
He presided personally over hundreds of hearings, a role that required him to grapple with the deepest sort of human pain and make agonizing decisions about the value of each life lost, a task he recounted in a 2005 memoir, "What Is a Life Worth?" So when the Obama White House proposed requiring BP to set up the escrow fund, Mr. Feinberg seemed the obvious choice to run it.
You might have noticed, East Coasters, that it got really fucking cold all of a sudden, making the already daunting task of getting out of bed in the morning exponentially more agonizing.
The task of locating a parking spot in a major city can be agonizing and at points seem downright impossible.
The task of locating a parking spot in a major city can be agonizing and at points seem downright impossible.
I returned impressed and hopeful, and the task is now to seek new frontiers, so that friendship and love will finally prevail in our agonizing world.
It's pretty agonizing".
These are agonizing questions.
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