restive
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Protesters are taking to the streets and likely to grow more restive in the sweltering Cuban summer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
Many Labour MPs are sympathetic to this move, which could make a future vote awkward for a restive party because the leadership has always resisted calls to go that far.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
The military has been heavily involved, a measure made possible by the PSN designation, causing tension in the restive region.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
I served on the first ship, the Fowey man-of-war; and then back to the Palace, where I stood as a picket guard when the population was got all restive.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Animal Farm
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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