agitation
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Moving patients with Alzheimer’s disease, he said, is associated with “behavioral destabilization, increased agitation, accelerated functional decline and a higher likelihood of acute care utilization.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
"Anything that creates, like an agitation, in the extremist on either side of the aisle is a frightening dynamic," Griffin said.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Some Fairhopians floated the idea that, like much of the rest of Alabama, the city operates with an old boys’ club mentality, intolerant of outside agitation like a No Kings protest.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
About half of all people living with dementia experience agitation, which can lead to severe distress for both patients and caregivers.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
My pridefulness was a constant source of sorrow and agitation for Aunt Ivy.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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The agitations for justice she mockingly compares to an Evelyn Waugh novel and “a musical comedy about college life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
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
"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
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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