restive

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In Cameroon, the Pope will visit the capital Yaoundé, the economic hub Douala, and the Anglophone city of Bamenda in the restive Northwest region, where an armed conflict has been raging for nearly 10 years.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

The military has long presented itself as the only force guarding restive Myanmar from rupture and ruin.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

Yet, however destructive to his personal life, Matthiessen’s restive, yearning nature animated the best of his fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Lee held the restive horse while Mrs. Bacon was helped up into the rig.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck