agitation
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As Hedda Gabler warned, bored women are time bombs whose agitation puts everyone at risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
As it tightened, I wondered if it could sense my agitation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
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
He warned that the protesters' agitation should not be politicised and also reiterated his promise to take action to deliver justice.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
If Booth’s agitation about the riders worried Garrett, his flight into the woods with Herold frightened him even more.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Mr Dixit agrees - he thinks that any support garnered by aggressive language agitations is likely to be short-lived.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
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 panel wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
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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Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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