agenda
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His pick for finance minister, still unannounced, may well determine how left-wing or centrist his economic agenda is.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Downing Street withdrew the legislation from the parliamentary agenda in January following disagreements over how far it would require intelligence services to comply with a proposed legal "duty of candour" on public bodies and officials.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Warsh already has made communications a focus for his agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Although the regents’ July 14-15 meeting agenda does not explicitly note an SAT discussion, the subject is all but certain to surface in public comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Things go in ways both expected and unexpected, the two couples warily feeling each other out as they wait to spring their own private agendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Like James Gandolfini in “Loop,” or Daniel Kaluuya in “Get Out,” or Eddie Albert in “Green Acres,” Mr. Bonneville is playing the only bona-fide sane adult in a crowd beset by mental malfunction, i.e, agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
There is no natural or preordained alliance between these groups, and at crucial moments their interests and agendas may differ.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
But when those agendas conflict, these justices seem to relish the opportunity to remind the president that they can still tell him no anytime they please.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
After that, she’d sworn never to trust girls again, especially girls with agendas and power of their own.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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The next most important agendum was the division of reparations so far received, a matter complicated by profits derived from the Ruhr occupation, seizures made, deliveries in kind received, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Principal agendum of the pages standing at the rostrum steps was to lift the train of each ascending delegate with combined dexterity, good timing and discretion.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The first is, that in his enterprises and engagements he would have thought nothing done, till all had been done that was possible:- Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum.
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Their main agendum was to pronounce their complete independence of men.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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