agenda
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But the scandal is unlikely to "dominate the agenda" or affect Trump and Xi's personal relationship, predicted Dylan Loh of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.
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
Kim’s election agenda features other policies likely to worry insurers, such as a ban on hiking rates in response to certain claims and a requirement to get customers’ consent before paring back coverage.
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
The 586th added “the need to increase vigilance” to their Party staff meeting agenda.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Within Theodore Roosevelt’s muscular nationalism, these agendas advanced federal regulation amid Republican divisions over executive authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
In the poem “Usefulness,” which was originally published in the Yale Review, you speak of how Black Cubans exist at the nexus of two different political agendas: the pro- and anti-Revolution contingents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Mr. Lillard, on the money, plays an administrator infuriated by the warped behavior of his most popular students, but who has to face parents with chips on their shoulders and self-serving agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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
Civil rights advocates pursued their own agendas as unelected representatives of communities defined by race and displayed considerable skill navigating courtrooms and halls of power across America.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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 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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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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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
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
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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