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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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Rickli said the scope of the agenda in Geneva is "very narrow".

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

“And we understand them, and we’re dealing with patience and moving the agenda forward. That being said, what should not happen is that our community gets stigmatized because of those issues.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Plus, retirees’ investments, the affordability agenda and the downsides of a boring job market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

He is currently coach of the USA, whom he led at this summer's World Cup, but even then United were lurking on his agenda.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“I assure you we will address your grievance, but the first item on the agenda is the settlement of the Widow Cane’s property.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

That message — a howl of righteous anger at state corruption and the perversion of religion to serve the nefarious agendas of cruel, power-mad men — is what makes “The Devils” sacrilegious yet not apostate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"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 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

Egos, competing agendas, career goals, and inertia may get in the way.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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


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