agitation
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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
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
The agitation weakened the then-ruling Left Front government and helped propel Banerjee and the TMC to power in 2011.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
Some Fairhopians floated the idea that, like much of the rest of Alabama, the city operates with an old boys’ club mentality, intolerant of outside agitation like a No Kings protest.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
When Abilene found him, she held him close, so close that Edward could feel her heart beating, leaping almost out of her chest in its agitation.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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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
Mr Dixit agrees - he thinks that any support garnered by aggressive language agitations is likely to be short-lived.
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
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
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Vocabulary lists containing agitation
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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