agenda
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Many Paxton-supported policies, according to Talarico, advance that agenda.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Why it's not on the agenda, I'm not sure, but it's pretty much recognised as we are the driving force of the local industry here."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The agenda changes at the threat of debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Iran has "never had on its agenda any dangerous measures in cyberspace and does not support such moves", spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said on state TV at the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Kok had a noble agenda: He wanted Bobby to continue his career, and he wanted to be a privileged witness to his games, as did almost all chess players.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
Things go in ways both expected and unexpected, the two couples warily feeling each other out as they wait to spring their own private agendas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Describing the closure as "cruel", Varney said the products the company sells are a luxury item that falls off consumers' agendas once cost pressures strike, and people stick to the essentials.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
There is no natural or preordained alliance between these groups, and at crucial moments their interests and agendas may differ.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 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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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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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
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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