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I suppose he could argue that Sarwar is an ally on his agenda to rewire how British politics works and can now agitate for change from within.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Some food and beverage workers, many who worked alongside the unionized hospitality workers employed by Hotel Figueroa, started to agitate to also form a union and gain similar rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

It appeared to agitate Cannon, who questioned the prosecution about why it was being brought up for the first time at the hearing.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023

“Please don’t agitate him. He’s in an agony of pain. He come in off Peter Hawker’s boat just a few minutes ago.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

And this is kind of a shame, because the story agitates the brain far more than it does the stomach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

Conversely, when researchers injected the rats with a substance that agitates the immune system, the inflammatory cytokine levels rapidly shot up.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

Tinseltown, it seems, is in the midst of an AI boom — even as its creative class agitates for limits on how that technology gets deployed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

It’s work that agitates — even crowbars — its way into a heart.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021

Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

After an agitated week, it felt like a proper, pleasant ending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“I get a little agitated and the pace is really, really different.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

They know their cognition will continue to fade, and they might live for years in an agitated, delusional state where they’ll need round-the-clock care from people they don’t recognize.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

Martínez-Olguín said she inherited the case because she was already overseeing another lawsuit dealing with the merger — not because Paramount had agitated for a change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Nobody knew anything, and as I grew more agitated, my attempts at English dissolved into incoherence.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Internally, he began agitating to offer a more fair deal to the firm’s investors amid all the losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Landlocked Ethiopia, home to around 130 million people and one of Africa’s strongest economies, has been agitating for sea access.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Buck Turgidson, one of the film’s most memorable characters, while agitating the president in the war room for a first strike against the Soviet Union.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Conversations about his goals implicitly involved an assessment of his prospects, which was agitating.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

“There is a definite agitating element” in antipoverty agencies in Durham, Galifianakis insinuated, and asked the FBI’s assistance in uncovering the “troublemakers.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson