agitation
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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
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
Mr. Gideon rides up on a fine horse, the beast dancing sideways in agitation.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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 order said.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022
If Mr. Wuorinen’s agitations seemed passé in the 1980s, they feel idiosyncratically archaic today.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2018
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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