agitated
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"I heard a man scream 'Allahu akbar' five or six times, in a very agitated manner," a young man who witnessed the chaos that ensued told Blick, which did not provide his name.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
When sales were meant to begin on Saturday, large crowds grew agitated when word spread there were limited quantities to sell.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
An agitated Jean finds herself praying to none other than Monica Lewinsky, the patron saint of bad romantic choices, or as Langbein puts it, “of those who suffer venal public shaming and patriarchal cruelty.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
His voice is agitated, it sounds almost dignified as he says: “I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Vocabulary lists containing agitated
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 5
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