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agitation

[aj-i-tay-shuhn] / ˌædʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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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

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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