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
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
Phone-induced distractedness, flusteredness, and agitation had been constants in life before prison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The chain has experienced other problems as well, including remodels that backfired, agitation among activist investors and same-store sales that have wobbled over Masino’s three-year tenure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Frankie raked a hand through his hair, his voice rising in agitation.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
These Marathi-centric agitations have earlier resonated with voters, especially in Mumbai, and some believe that it could help the Thackeray cousins in the municipal elections as well.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
The comment comes against the backdrop of recent agitations from employees at several technology companies.
From Reuters ● Jun. 2, 2022
Powerful people were highly annoyed around here for two decades at the agitations of anti-stadium activist Chris Van Dyk.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
There being few provisions for sale, the bustle of commerce had given way to the scurried agitations of scarcity and the angry chafferings of need.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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