agenda
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AI was said to be on the agenda, and Mr. Xi is surely pressing Mr. Trump on Taiwan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
US President Donald Trump will host Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington, with everything from AI to trade and Taiwan on the agenda for the leaders of the global superpowers.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
When President Trump and Xi Jinping sit down in Washington on Thursday, Taiwan will be near the top of the Chinese leader’s agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The executives' remarks come shortly before Trump is due to welcome Chinese leader Xi Jinping, hosting him for a summit where AI will be on the agenda.
From Barron's
"Even though it wasn't on the official agenda? And the princess will probably be upset?"
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The bizarre geography lesson appeared in student agendas distributed at Farnsley Middle School, part of Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
With fiduciary responsibility, Mr. Reynolds says, “I think a lot of hidden agendas go away. Advice has to be in the client’s best interest, not motivated by a desire to run up the bill.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Whatever agendas they may personally espouse, these writers are too alert to the messiness of history and human nature to be rigidly ideological in their work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Describing the closure as "cruel", Varney said the products the company sells are a luxury item that falls off consumers' agendas once cost pressures strike, and people stick to the essentials.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Civil rights advocates pursued their own agendas as unelected representatives of communities defined by race and displayed considerable skill navigating courtrooms and halls of power across America.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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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But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.
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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Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line— "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum."
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Locus ad agendum amplissimus: A place very honourable to plead in.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
Vocabulary lists containing agenda
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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