restive
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Conflict monitors, now watching with alarm as Islamist militants capture territory and stage attacks in Mali, urge the administration to pay closer attention to the restive Sahel region and other hot spots.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Tinubu said in his statement that al-Minuki, also known as Abu-Mainok, was slain along with his lieutenants, "on his compound in the Lake Chad Basin", a restive region straddling Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Protesters are taking to the streets and likely to grow more restive in the sweltering Cuban summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Many have their own restive populations to contend with and fear contagion and chaos if the Iranian regime falls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
I served on the first ship, the Fowey man-of-war; and then back to the Palace, where I stood as a picket guard when the population was got all restive.
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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Animal Farm
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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