agenda
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Rickli said the scope of the agenda in Geneva is "very narrow".
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 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
Kim’s election agenda features other policies likely to worry insurers, such as a ban on hiking rates in response to certain claims and a requirement to get customers’ consent before paring back coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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
Now, let us proceed with our agenda for the evening.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
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
The Department of Correctional Services transferred in-mates according to its own obscure agendas.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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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 Sir Owen Seaman
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
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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