agitated
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"I heard a man scream 'Allahu akbar' five or six times, in a very agitated manner," a young man who witnessed the chaos that ensued told Blick, which did not provide his name.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
In fact a laundry list of laundry terms could apply: folded, pressed, softened, agitated, pleated, creased, puckered.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
The national fire service has posted images on X of workers at the site as an agitated crowd mill around the scene.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Red, realizing he had been duped, started through the crowd, which now was milling about in an agitated state with some people pressing forward toward the action and others fleeing from it.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing agitated
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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