agitating
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His agitating and manipulation, which he would later concede was primarily staged, drove a wedge between Montag and the show’s star Lauren Conrad.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
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
Conversations about his goals implicitly involved an assessment of his prospects, which was agitating.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025
And the man who cranked the sugarcane press gripped the palm fan that he ordinarily used to chase away flies, agitating the air from every conceivable angle.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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