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Other practical tips include not screaming, flapping your arms or swatting at wasps, as this will agitate them and make them more aggressive.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

The city also is looking at installing a 6- to 8-foot-tall fence along the river to address complaints that the passing bikers will agitate the dogs.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2023

Sources say there "is absolutely no chance" Rooney will agitate for a move from Old Trafford to Eastlands again next summer.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2010

Solar irruptions of the coming two years, the maxima of cycles large and small, will agitate the solar magnetic field and produce upheavals on earth, including the biosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

We must not let our mother know, however, it will agitate her too much.

From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by Kingston, William Henry Giles