agitation

Moving patients with Alzheimer’s disease, he said, is associated with “behavioral destabilization, increased agitation, accelerated functional decline and a higher likelihood of acute care utilization.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Traditional talk therapy often worsened their symptoms, triggering agitation, rage and physical reactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Some Fairhopians floated the idea that, like much of the rest of Alabama, the city operates with an old boys’ club mentality, intolerant of outside agitation like a No Kings protest.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026

“Well, they had this investigator, this bounty hunter,” Irmgard said in agitation, “named Dave Holden.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

The agitations for justice she mockingly compares to an Evelyn Waugh novel and “a musical comedy about college life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Most are believed to originate from the distant, icy reaches of the solar system where gravitational agitations sometimes push them toward the sun — an interaction that transforms them into gorgeous cosmic objects.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

The comment comes against the backdrop of recent agitations from employees at several technology companies.

From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022

“What is not religiously made obligatory therefore cannot be made a quintessential aspect of the religion through public agitations or by the passionate arguments in courts,” the panel wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

There being few provisions for sale, the bustle of commerce had given way to the scurried agitations of scarcity and the angry chafferings of need.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson