How to Use agita in a Sentence

agita

noun
  • There was some agita for the Green in this one, of course.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
  • For all the agita swirling around him, James has seemed very chill.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • But the agita over how to groom yourself for work—hair straight or curly?
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The provision for what’s been called the oligarchs list has caused a great deal of agita among the elites of Russia.
    Carol Morello, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • That being said, the break from the emotional agita was nice, helping lend a light, fun feel to the episode.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 May 2018
  • The collective agita of the two men pales in intrigue compared to the women in the story.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2017
  • The book, obtained by news outlets and reviewed last week, has caused great agita for Trump.
    Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Davis struck out Granderson with the next pitch and, despite the agita, tacked on a scoreless ninth to secure Chicago's win.
    Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
  • After much agita, Porter was given a fresh copy of the speech, and was able to deliver it within a five-minute time frame the next day.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And the agita inspired by Wood’s departure in Atlanta is well-known.
    Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
  • Frankly, cheering on a whale revolt feels like a far more desirable way to relieve the agita.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 7 July 2023
  • His stubbornness has caused him and his staff untold agita in his first 112 days in office.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 May 2017
  • Even the bullpen, the source of so much agita in postseasons past, is much improved thanks to the additions of Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson.
    SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The heightened agita of the current political climate might play a role in that growth among young people.
    Lorena O'Neil, Marie Claire, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Given his broken finger, his fragile knees, his sore back and achy feet, not to mention his chronic agita, Bryant can't sit in a car for two hours.
    Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • For all the agita caused by Alabama’s kicking game, the sight Saturday afternoon was a new one.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 27 Sep. 2019
  • But patients who use the referral service may get nothing more than a serious case of agita and dashed hopes.
    Sam Wood, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Watching a president who is in near-constant combat with the national media adds to the agita.
    Jack Marshall, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2017
  • But all the little decisions can at least begin to move the needle in the right direction (and relieve some of our collective agita!), and that’s where this guide comes in.
    The Healthyish Team, Bon Appétit, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The prospect of so much government borrowing is creating lots of agita for those investors being asked to buy all this debt.
    Mark Zandi, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Celtics fans strive for relevance above all else, but swapping crowd-favorite Thomas, even for a bona fide superstar, will spark agita across the greater Boston area.
    Nick Greene, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
  • But the council spent the most time debating amendments related to service charges and I-82, which have caused months of mounting agita among diners.
    Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Nonetheless, the mere threat of another widespread UPS strike is causing agita in boardrooms across the country.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 June 2018
  • My flash of fatherly agita was a result of everything seeming to pile up at once after my baby’s birth.
    Taylor Tepper, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • For all the genre stratification and social-media agita, SZA is adored.
    Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • That points to a major source of agita for some observers of the 2016 election: electoral forecasts in the news media and elsewhere that used polling data to suggest Mrs. Clinton was highly likely to win.
    New York Times, 23 Nov. 2019
  • In a market where 86 percent of apartments are resales, compromise is a necessity for buyers and a source of agita for sellers and their agents.
    Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Despite the simmering agita of her Rocky Mountain characters, this is fiction as comfort food, as goopy and pacifying as the sloppy joes Elena dishes out to the kids.
    Jan Stuart, New York Times, 16 June 2017
  • Tulsa Tulsa is as enigmatic as ever, which is fun for casual viewers but the cause of agita and heartburn for the Golden Hurricane’s fan base.
    Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • The classic Meg Laughlin story was hard to report, harder to write, a treat to read, and practically guaranteed to cause the editor trying to get it into the paper agita.
    Elinor J. Brecher, miamiherald, 12 July 2017

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