The phrase "agitate over" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey the intended meaning clearly
It could be used when discussing feelings of unrest or concern about a particular issue, but it is better to use more standard expressions.
Example: "Many people tend to agitate over political issues that affect their daily lives."
Alternatives: "worry about" or "fret over"
The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
If not, there are plenty of rebels prepared to agitate over this, especially with high-profile MPs taking a different stance, with Chuka Umunna leading the new Brexit scrutiny group Vote Leave Watch, and others, including Hilary Benn and Emma Reynolds, preparing to compete for the chairmanship of the new Brexit select committee.
If you are trying to lose weight, don't agitate over your failure of will on the third day of your program.
Tehreek-e Labaik, which had warned the court not to rule in Bibi's favor, said through spokesman Zubair Rizvi it did not accept the decision and vowed to continue to agitate over the case.
Republicans close to the president maintained that the White House's distance was deliberate in order to keep Mr. Bush inoculated from conservative Republicans agitated over the huge expense of what became a $395 billion bill.
"The public is obviously very agitated over the revaluation".
Villagers are getting agitated over the water question".
Tehran is agitated over unconstrained actions carried out in Syria without co-ordination [with Iran].
In recent years, Mr. Teitel seemed especially agitated over gay Jews, the police said.
She couldn't get too agitated over David Stern's threat to cancel the W.N.B.A. season without a labor agreement.
The people in the crowd were tired and agitated over having to answer for Lester Maddox and Bull Connor 40 years later.
