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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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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

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

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

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

But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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