agitation
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"His behaviour provided temporary relief from psychological agitation," Eloise Barker said.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
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
And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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 order said.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022
And so, I considered the befuddling risks, stresses, uncertainties, child care complications, psychic agitations and relative irresponsibility of traveling anywhere at all and asked, “What if I drove to Spokane?”
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
Millions of separate and precise agitations bombarded her senses.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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