agenda
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As he starts his term as Fed chair, Warsh can’t count on the support of his fellow governors for his agenda, Bianco said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
The pair will work together to set the agenda for the nation’s most economically important city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We’re just implementing the agenda of the president as we’ve been directed through the national security strategy and the White House,” the State Department official told ProPublica.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
A Downing Street spokesperson said the PM told Trump about his "vision" for the UK and that ensuring the security of the UK and its allies "was at the top of his agenda".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Debate on Greenberg’s request for an extension was scheduled for the early part of the meeting, but Grabarek departed from the published agenda and skipped to other matters.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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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
The so-called alignment problem, or AIs developing their own agendas and deciding to eliminate humanity?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
It is worthwhile to know what their agendas are.
From Slate ● May 7, 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
In-mates are often shifted, with little notice, between facilities, ac-cording to obscure agendas of the Department.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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 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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The Accusative of the Gerund is used only with Prepositions, chiefly ad and in to denote purpose; as,— homō ad agendum nātus est, man is born for action.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
To this perfection it is, therefore, bound, as the fundamental science, to attain, and to it the maxim may justly be applied: Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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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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