agitate
Example Sentences
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The activists’ arrival, and CEO candidate, comes as Lululemon founder Chip Wilson had already been agitating for change and weighing in on the CEO search.
Having long agitated for his Dutch-speaking home region to break free from the rest of Belgium -- his fierce stance protecting what he insists is the national interest has won him plaudits across the political spectrum.
From Barron's
Little things are starting to agitate me every day.
From BBC
And this is kind of a shame, because the story agitates the brain far more than it does the stomach.
“But it is the natural conclusion to this toxic social media world in which we swim in a constant state of agitated attention.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
