hidden agenda

Example Sentences

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“No hidden agenda or other reason,” he said of the timing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

“It is a rejection of the belief that there is some sort of hidden agenda of indoctrination. None of that is happening.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

It appears, then, that copyright violation—in the old-fashioned as well as newfangled meaning of the term—may be a part of Meta’s hidden agenda.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2023

So free speech does not mean you abuse that freedom and tell people whatever you want because you have a hidden agenda.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

I look back down at the drawing, rotating his questions in my mind like I’m searching for their hidden agenda.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman