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The phrase "as distressing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the level of distress caused by one situation to another.
Example: "The news of the accident was as distressing as the loss of a loved one."
Alternatives: "equally troubling" or "just as upsetting".
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The over-milking of everything was just as distressing as it always is.
Nicole Phelps, director of the magazine's runway app, described the "the street style mess" as distressing.
Everything the camera sees is as strange, as distressing and as beautiful as it ever was.
Just as distressing is the fact that so many murderers of journalists escape justice.
But as distressing as this sounds, a healthy amount of optimism about the future of Tulane football exists these days.
As distressing as the situation can sometimes be, Mr. Spitzman, like many of Shout's work-study students, has remained undeterred.
"I've tried to make this picture of imprisonment as distressing as it is in reality," writes Lyon in the preface.
Innocents do get dragged through the British media with what the Leveson report described as distressing frequency.
Neuroticism, in psychology and development, a broad personality trait dimension representing the degree to which a person experiences the world as distressing, threatening, and unsafe.
Almost as distressing, however, was the response of Utah state officials, who once again refused to work with skilled, fully licensed rehabilitators eager to help the injured birds.
So the revolution was as distressing for some of the faithful as it was for the Shah's supporters, and left deep fissures within the Zarif family.
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