agitate
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It might seem strange to look this deeply into the why of Matt Damon as Odysseus, since his casting didn’t agitate right-wing trolls.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
The city also is looking at installing a 6- to 8-foot-tall fence along the river to address complaints that the passing bikers will agitate the dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Ocelots and jaguars prowl the forest, and spider monkeys and black howlers agitate the canopy.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023
I would agitate against the bemused person who was attempting to help me upward, that is.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
Hundreds of people crammed into the school gym that April evening, and the debate over Point Reyes agitated into a low boil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim sang Alessandro with a hooded quality and too much vibrato; he sounded messy, especially in the big register jumps of his agitated Act 2 aria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Arriving on New York’s free soil, he later wrote, “A new world burst upon my agitated vision.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
As I resettled into the life I had so missed, I at first tried to avoid the agitating, distracting and intrusive pull of my phone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
Conversations about his goals implicitly involved an assessment of his prospects, which was agitating.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
The lore has it that Trump saw the Bastille Day celebration in France in 2017 and has been agitating for one ever since.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
His firm already had a full roster of work, so much, he wrote, that “we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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