agitate
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They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Little things are starting to agitate me every day.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025
Extremes here agitate within sight of one another, often across a single property line, sometimes simply in the difference between what we have today and what we’re left with tomorrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
It appeared to agitate Cannon, who questioned the prosecution about why it was being brought up for the first time at the hearing.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2023
And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
And this is kind of a shame, because the story agitates the brain far more than it does the stomach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Conversely, when researchers injected the rats with a substance that agitates the immune system, the inflammatory cytokine levels rapidly shot up.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
Tinseltown, it seems, is in the midst of an AI boom — even as its creative class agitates for limits on how that technology gets deployed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
It’s work that agitates — even crowbars — its way into a heart.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021
And then something else happens that agitates Helmuth, that makes him all the more determined to wake up the people of Germany.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I feel guilty he's become agitated and distressed.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
If she threatens to withdraw her affection or becomes agitated or angry, that’s OK too.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
She’s just frustrated that the weather isn’t cooperating with her upcoming outdoor performance and agitated that this might be a bad omen for her big American comeback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
"I heard a man scream 'Allahu akbar' five or six times, in a very agitated manner," a young man who witnessed the chaos that ensued told Blick, which did not provide his name.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
At my reaction the monkeys grew more agitated and called to each other, watching it advance.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Internally, he began agitating to offer a more fair deal to the firm’s investors amid all the losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Landlocked Ethiopia, home to around 130 million people and one of Africa’s strongest economies, has been agitating for sea access.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
The dollar rallied, even though Warsh has been agitating for more rate cuts, which tend to undermine the dollar’s value.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
Conversations about his goals implicitly involved an assessment of his prospects, which was agitating.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
With the absence of so many people, the town became scary, the night darker, and the silence unbearably agitating.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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