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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an agonizing time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of intense suffering or distress.
Example: "After the accident, she went through an agonizing time as she struggled to recover both physically and emotionally."
Alternatives: "a painful period" or "a distressing time".
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"But it's an agonizing time".
Meanwhile, he presents an agonizing time capsule of an age of ambient racism, homophobic persecution, and moralistic hypocrisy.
At Lieutenant Clancy's old firehouse, Engine 298 in Jamaica, news of the judge's decision brought up memories of an agonizing time, Capt. Bruce Groth said.
It was an extraordinary time Mr. President, an agonizing time, a time of great conflict, a time of great sorrow, and a time that would forever change the way we saw our country and the world.
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For voters who've been around for a few decades, this election season has often been an agonizing time-loop back to the nineteen-nineties, to old debates, to long-dormant controversies, especially when it comes to Hillary Clinton.
"One woman we've counted was there for at least two hours — an extraordinary, agonizing time for her surely having to stand on her feet for that long".
These gung-ho space cowboys might have had a more agonizing time deciding on their evening meal packets.
Contemporary America emerged from that multiracial stew, a nation peopled by the heirs of that agonizing time who struggled and strived with precious little knowledge of their own origins.
Lance has aero bars to cut wind resistance and squeeze every second out of those agonizing time trials.
This does not change the bare facts that this president has been here before, three or four agonizing times with this horrid economy and once with what is still being debated by Washington's most learned legal minds as a confusing unconstitutional mess of a health care law, and each time the stakes were raised.
When Michelle spends an agonizing three minutes of screen time searching for her backpack in order to leave the house, amid her mother's reminders that "we really gotta go," every object on her bedroom floor seems like a roadblock to her success.
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