agitate
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Torres captured the broader institutional despair bluntly when he admitted he lacked confidence in regulators but felt there was “no choice but to agitate for accountability.”
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Other practical tips include not screaming, flapping your arms or swatting at wasps, as this will agitate them and make them more aggressive.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Some food and beverage workers, many who worked alongside the unionized hospitality workers employed by Hotel Figueroa, started to agitate to also form a union and gain similar rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Hundreds of people crammed into the school gym that April evening, and the debate over Point Reyes agitated into a low boil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
After an agitated week, it felt like a proper, pleasant ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Martínez-Olguín said she inherited the case because she was already overseeing another lawsuit dealing with the merger — not because Paramount had agitated for a change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Her ball toss went awry, her footwork was a step slower, and she was more agitated, at one point screaming in frustration after a netted forehand.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Even among those agitated enough to write letters, only about a quarter said the program had scared them to any degree.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
His agitating and manipulation, which he would later concede was primarily staged, drove a wedge between Montag and the show’s star Lauren Conrad.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
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
Conversations about his goals implicitly involved an assessment of his prospects, which was agitating.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025
“Maybe I should”—Gat took my hands, turned them over to look at the words written on the backs—“I should live for today and not be agitating all the time.”
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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