agenda
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But she has spent that time directing the legislative agenda of her party, Popular Force, while campaigning for the presidency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
As he starts his term as Fed chair, Warsh can’t count on the support of his fellow governors for his agenda, Bianco said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
These seniors are former high-level workers in government and scientific fields who have an excellent understanding of the politics driving the administration’s agenda, and they are organizing to protest it.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
I suppose he could argue that Sarwar is an ally on his agenda to rewire how British politics works and can now agitate for change from within.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She’d said she just wanted to check in with me, but then she’d immediately pushed the candy dish my way, so I knew there was a heavy topic on the agenda.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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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
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
It is worthwhile to know what their agendas are.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Like James Gandolfini in “Loop,” or Daniel Kaluuya in “Get Out,” or Eddie Albert in “Green Acres,” Mr. Bonneville is playing the only bona-fide sane adult in a crowd beset by mental malfunction, i.e, agendas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Instead, he headed up to sit on the stage with the officers and handed the leftover agendas to the person he sat next to.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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 Seaman, Owen, Sir
Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line— "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum."
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
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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