restive
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In Cameroon, the Pope will visit the capital Yaoundé, the economic hub Douala, and the Anglophone city of Bamenda in the restive Northwest region, where an armed conflict has been raging for nearly 10 years.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
Yet, however destructive to his personal life, Matthiessen’s restive, yearning nature animated the best of his fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
The military has been heavily involved, a measure made possible by the PSN designation, causing tension in the restive region.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
The convention itself had the air of a restive stallion.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing restive
Animal Farm
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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