agenda
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Asked about the status of the proposed cap, a White House official said the administration is continuing to work with lawmakers “to deliver on the president’s agenda to lower costs for American consumers.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Ford placed the inmate’s bid for clemency on the agenda of the state pardons board — an example, Lombardo claims, of the way Ford treats criminals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
"Every large business with a fleet is looking at this issue very carefully, it is very much on their agenda," said Casci.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
No concrete proposals for a meeting or an agenda had been discussed, the Kremlin said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
I had that agenda I’d been assiduously maintaining since freshman year of college, stemming from the neat line of boxes I was meant to check.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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My opinion is very useful to many agendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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
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
Bruckner aside, most of Wagner’s contemporaries, while quick to assert his musical brilliance, were as at sea with the whole Wagner-and-the-future-of-all-art project as they were with the cultural agendas of his dramas.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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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But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.
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 Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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
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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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