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Laura attempted to go along with their realities to avoid agitation, which made her feel like she was living in “this weird, make-believe version” of the world.
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Soon after, he began to have episodes of extreme agitation, crawling on the floor and even hallucinating.
A BOY WITH AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE WAS READY TO LEARN IN PERSON. THEN HIS STATE BANNED MASK MANDATES.BY ANNIE WALDMAN AND BIANCA FORTISAUGUST 25, 2021PROPUBLICA
Though the Palmdale station was a five-minute drive from his house, his agitation signaled to him that it was time to relocate to what he’d hoped would be a less relentless outpost.
THE BROKEN FRONT LINEBY AVA KOFMAN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY KENDRICK BRINSON AND DAVID WALTER BANKSAPRIL 7, 2021PROPUBLICA
In the 1970s and 1980s, Punjabi Sikhs led similar agitations that called for better government support of agriculture.
THE FARMERS' PROTESTS ARE A TURNING POINT FOR INDIA'S DEMOCRACY—AND THE WORLD CAN NO LONGER IGNORE THATSIMRAN JEET SINGHFEBRUARY 12, 2021TIME
My lower-back pain was at its worst, and running only added to the agitation.
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In passing to her own chamber she met the Emperor, and, in the agitation of her maternal fears, told him all that had passed.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
When Stanhope entered to him, he found his guest lying on a sofa, in a high state of fever, both from his wounds and agitation.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
Santa Cruz embraced him, with more agitation than his stately mien might have announced.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
The agitation for Tenant-Right in Ireland is destined to fail—in fact, has virtually failed already.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
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