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
This was because his agenda was too tight, they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
You feel the pressure in Chinese society and on the leadership’s agenda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Success for Burnham means avoiding this issue becoming a millstone around his neck while he pursues his other foreign policy priorities and focuses on his domestic agenda," Pannell told AFP.
From Barron's
"Can we finish the business on our agenda? And then talk about this at the end of the night?"
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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"It came to power very much on a programme to bring down crime and energy prices. And crime and petrol prices have come down, so those issues no longer top voters' agendas," Teorell said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The two candidates for California governor came to Sacramento offering policy agendas that were both sweeping and vague.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She has blamed people inside and outside Goldman who she believes have agendas against her, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Our kids had their own agendas, which left them less impressed with even the more fun parts of ours.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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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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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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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Their main agendum was to pronounce their complete independence of men.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
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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