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Maybe the younger son is agitating his brother more than you realized.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2022

Amid talk that Mino Raiola is agitating a move for his client, Mr Pogba, the former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand, has a message for Ed Woodward.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2018

“Football allows us to put immigration on stage, a question that is agitating European countries right now,” said Yvan Gastaut, a University of Nice historian who curated an exhibit on soccer and migration.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2018

If the very description of White’s jagged juxtapositions is agitating, their effect in the film is all the more energizing.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

The question of the ethics of reprisals is agitating London.

From A Traveller in War-Time by Churchill, Winston