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
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
In the midst of this willful confusion, one Madisonian conviction shone through with his more characteristic clarity—namely, that slavery was an explosive topic that must be removed from the political agenda of the new nation.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
Families pay a $10 annual instructional fee for the agendas.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
By escaping that category, climate change is making it harder to rein in inflation, even if it doesn’t appear on the agendas of economic conferences dominated by faster-moving risks like AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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
Haints seemed to have their own minds and agendas, despite what Aunt Rose might think.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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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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
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 Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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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