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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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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

On the agenda Friday: how Huang will respond to a request from the Senate Banking Committee to testify next month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

Once "a very conservative player" at climate talks, China now sees pushing the global climate agenda as serving its national interest – and, he says, "we're only at the beginning of this".

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

That message — a howl of righteous anger at state corruption and the perversion of religion to serve the nefarious agendas of cruel, power-mad men — is what makes “The Devils” sacrilegious yet not apostate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

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

Haints seemed to have their own minds and agendas, despite what Aunt Rose might think.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

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

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

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

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


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