hidden agenda

Example Sentences

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“No hidden agenda or other reason,” he said of the timing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

“It is a rejection of the belief that there is some sort of hidden agenda of indoctrination. None of that is happening.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

It appears, then, that copyright violation—in the old-fashioned as well as newfangled meaning of the term—may be a part of Meta’s hidden agenda.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2023

“I’ve been doing the jobs that have been put in front of me. I’ve built the relationships that I’ve had an opportunity to build, not for any hidden agenda, but because I’m working with them.”

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

What if it pursued a hidden agenda against the wishes of the people?

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield