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agitation

[aj-i-tay-shuhn] / ˌædʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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This year Baum travelled to Germany to talk about his family's experience of antisemitic persecution and to warn against far-right agitation, including at anti-AfD protests.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

What’s more, we cannot yet prevent schizophrenia or offer patients drugs that don’t produce side effects such as agitation, weight gain and tremors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The chain has experienced other problems as well, including remodels that backfired, agitation among activist investors and same-store sales that have wobbled over Masino’s three-year tenure.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Nav Nirman agitation in Gujarat helped trigger veteran socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's movement against former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

He stood up in his agitation and walked a pace or two this way, a pace or two that while Hester watched unblinking from the bench.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Amid all his witty agitations and narcissistic machinations, Marvel’s Loki, as played by Tom Hiddleston, helped his eponymous Disney+ series land as the most watched of Marvel Studios’ freshman television lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

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 order said.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022

If Mr. Wuorinen’s agitations seemed passé in the 1980s, they feel idiosyncratically archaic today.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2018

Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen




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