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agitation

[aj-i-tey-shuhn] / ˌædʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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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

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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