agenda
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An EU official told AFP Nvidia was not officially on the leaders' agenda but that would not prevent anyone from "bringing it up" after recent developments.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 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
A package of cost-of-living measures and business-rate reductions from his government helped lift confidence over the summer, while an agenda focused on fiscal decentralization and reindustrialization aims to strengthen the country’s longer-term growth prospects.
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 answer recalled the earliest advice half-jokingly offered by a newspaper editor when the residency question had first appeared on the national agenda: Give the decision to George Washington.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
Families pay a $10 annual instructional fee for the agendas.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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
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
In-mates are often shifted, with little notice, between facilities, ac-cording to obscure agendas of the Department.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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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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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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
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
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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