agitation
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Traditional talk therapy often worsened their symptoms, triggering agitation, rage and physical reactions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The agitation weakened the then-ruling Left Front government and helped propel Banerjee and the TMC to power in 2011.
From BBC • May 8, 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
Risperidone is often used to reduce aggression and severe agitation, but it is already known to carry a higher stroke risk for older adults.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
No words can tell the agitation of my spirits occasioned by merely the thought of throwing open that portal and beholding the secrets of the gloomy closet within.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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