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agitation

[aj-i-tay-shuhn] / ˌædʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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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

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

The Nav Nirman agitation in Gujarat helped trigger veteran socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan's movement against former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

Milkman was curious about his father’s agitation, but not alarmed.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

Most are believed to originate from the distant, icy reaches of the solar system where gravitational agitations sometimes push them toward the sun — an interaction that transforms them into gorgeous cosmic objects.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

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

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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