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And men had agitated to chop up that California into digestible pieces.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2021

By World War II, however, the Indian National Congress had agitated for independence for almost sixty years.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Underscoring her clout, Pelosi won over a group of eight centrist Democrats in the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus who had agitated for procedural changes and threatened to withhold their votes.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2018

Although Kelly had agitated for the removal of outgoing national security adviser H.R.

From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2018

The strong wind and its pungent aroma had agitated him strangely, and his heart was restless as if in anxious expectation of something sweet.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various