agenda
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The agenda changes at the threat of debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The federal government’s programs and research funding agenda take a similar approach.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
On July 26 in Pennsylvania, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries introduced the party’s Fighting for an Affordable America agenda to mark 100 days until November’s midterm elections.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
In a statement, she confirmed the telephone call and the agenda items.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The word genocide shares its root with gene—and for good reason: the Nazis used the vocabulary of genes and genetics to launch, justify, and sustain their agenda.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
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
But the alliance soon unravelled as they pursued divergent political agendas.
From BBC ● May 11, 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
So when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the agendas of Stalin and his composers were abruptly realigned.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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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But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines.
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 Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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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