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• r  in a very painful manner
  the progress was agonizingly slow

• The preparation for Challenger's tenth journey into space had been painstakingly careful, and for its crew, agonizingly slow.
• His senses of smell and hearing become agonizingly acute.
• Even before a long, agonizingly unfunny scene that Skinner spends at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, the film's desperate smile has turned into a rictus.

• excruciatingly
• torturously

News & Articles

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• Kline earns first win at Grandview
  Finally, Paul Kline is a Grandview Speedway sportsman winner. The Muhlenberg Township driver has been agonizingly close to adding his name to the win column at the Bechtelsville oval since the sportsmen were added as a weekly division leading into the 2012 season.
  June 7, 2013 - Reading Eagle

Quotes

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• Daryl Katz in SportingNews.com
  They did a great thing when they came together to buy the team and keep it in Edmonton,Katz said. "They have maintained a real community feeling ever since, and just over one year ago they came agonizingly close to bringing the Cup back to...
• Nick Rahall in Billings Gazette
  This is a true Groundhog Day budget that simply and agonizingly repeats the ludicrous budgetary policies that the Congress and the American people have consistently rejected year after year after year after year,Rahall said. "This budget...
• Paul Cayard in TVNZ
  After so much high-intensity sailing, 30,000 miles around the world, this leg has been agonizingly slow for all the teams,Paul Cayard, skipper of Disney's Pirates of the Carribean, said in an email earlier this week.