Synonyms for agitating
ag·i·tat·ing

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1. agitative, agitating, provokingadjective

   causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

   "a provoking delay at the airport"

   Synonyms:
   agitative, provoking

   Antonyms:
   unprovoking, unprovocative

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1. List of paraphrases for "agitating":

   campaigning, angry, stirring

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1. Scott Gottlieb:

   I think what governors are agitating for are some clear guideposts that define what the on and off ramp is for this. When do we start to roll back this mitigation ? We don't have an agreed upon set of nomenclature and metrics for measuring that, what governors are sensing is that we need to agree upon a set of metrics -- when we're going to start to roll back these mitigation steps, and give people a light at the end of the tunnel.

2. Benjamin Hooks:

   Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks.

3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford:

   It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

4. Daniel Freund:

   We have repeatedly seen Hungary block resolutions in the Council on things like human rights in Hong Kong or when fighting erupted in Israel earlier this year, presumably to poke the member states agitating against its own violations in the eye.

5. Prakash Adhikari:

   The prime minister will hold dialogue with the agitating parties in the Terai in the coming days.