agitation
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This year Baum travelled to Germany to talk about his family's experience of antisemitic persecution and to warn against far-right agitation, including at anti-AfD protests.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
What’s more, we cannot yet prevent schizophrenia or offer patients drugs that don’t produce side effects such as agitation, weight gain and tremors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The chain has experienced other problems as well, including remodels that backfired, agitation among activist investors and same-store sales that have wobbled over Masino’s three-year tenure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Nav Nirman agitation in Gujarat helped trigger veteran socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's movement against former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He stood up in his agitation and walked a pace or two this way, a pace or two that while Hester watched unblinking from the bench.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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Amid all his witty agitations and narcissistic machinations, Marvel’s Loki, as played by Tom Hiddleston, helped his eponymous Disney+ series land as the most watched of Marvel Studios’ freshman television lineup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
The comment comes against the backdrop of recent agitations from employees at several technology companies.
From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022
"What is not religiously made obligatory therefore cannot be made a quintessential aspect of the religion through public agitations or by the passionate arguments in courts," the order said.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022
If Mr. Wuorinen’s agitations seemed passé in the 1980s, they feel idiosyncratically archaic today.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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