hidden agenda
Example Sentences
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“No hidden agenda or other reason,” he said of the timing.
From Los Angeles Times
“So we don’t really have any hidden agenda. Overtaking the United States is not our goal,” he said.
From Seattle Times
“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
“They have been removed from the printed history, and we want to put them back. And it really is that simple. There’s no hidden agenda. There’s no, you know, secrets here. It’s just about transparency, truth and restoration of our history,” Maulian Bryant, Penobscot Nation ambassador and president of the Wabanaki Alliance, told the group.
From Washington Times
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
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