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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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There is a scenario in which the agenda question resolves itself, Sun said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ford placed the inmate’s bid for clemency on the agenda of the state pardons board — an example, Lombardo claims, of the way Ford treats criminals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Proxy materials released this week revealed a bare-bones agenda for that meeting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The fourth day was meant to be the rest day where, fishing, golf or shopping was on the agenda but the players had other ideas.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

As part of his social agenda, the Captain abolished the worst aspects of the company-store system in Coalwood.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

I’ve suggested we two hold weekly or bimonthly meetings—informal yet complete with agendas to better establish our priorities—to introduce structure, rhythm and ritual to our partnership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The bizarre geography lesson appeared in student agendas distributed at Farnsley Middle School, part of Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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

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

Bruckner aside, most of Wagner’s contemporaries, while quick to assert his musical brilliance, were as at sea with the whole Wagner-and-the-future-of-all-art project as they were with the cultural agendas of his dramas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

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 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

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


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