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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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US President Donald Trump will host Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington, with everything from AI to trade and Taiwan on the agenda for the leaders of the global superpowers.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

There was also nothing of substance in terms of clinical data or assets, and little clarity on M&A even though it clearly remains on the agenda, Deutsche Bank adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

But the disaster has pushed climate diplomacy to the center of his premiership, overshadowing the anti-corruption agenda.

From Barron's

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"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

Instead, the Tribune tracked the grants by reviewing the vehicle authority’s meeting records, as well as documents, agendas and discussions from 101 city councils and county commissions that approved or discussed Flock-related grants.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Ricci went viral for taking viewers behind the closed doors of his family’s quarterly money meetings, all the way down to agendas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

I saw everyone else going on with their own agendas while Mrs. Cadaver was frantically trying to keep her husband and her mother alive.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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

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

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

The first is, that in his enterprises and engagements he would have thought nothing done, till all had been done that was possible:- Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum.

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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




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