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Discover LudwigThe phrase "agonizingly slowly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is happening at an extremely slow pace, often causing frustration or discomfort.
Example: "The meeting dragged on, and the minutes passed agonizingly slowly as everyone waited for the final decision."
Alternatives: "excruciatingly slow" or "painfully slow".
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Yet the number of female lawmakers is rising agonizingly slowly.
Penicillin grows agonizingly slowly, harvested from small droplets that leak from a kind of green mold.
In real time, the camera moved across the campus, as agonizingly slowly as the actual tour we remembered.
Anatoliy Cherevach, a banking analyst for the Cohen & Steers Dividend Value fund, said that he thought the immediate credit squeeze was abating but that he expected another shoe to drop, though agonizingly slowly.
And yet the biggest story of the year, the presidential campaign that ended in a virtual deadlock, is moving so agonizingly slowly it seems to have stopped time altogether.
The pitch is agonizingly, slowly heading to the plate waiting for a ball or strike call.
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The way the creators used this to their advantage to build the tension was to make short cut scenes with a door opening, agonizingly, achingly slowly.
Peter being good if agonizingly slow.
It might be described as agonizingly slow.
Service was agonizingly slow from a slower kitchen.
"Certain things are just kind of agonizingly slow".
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