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agenda

[uh-jen-duh] / əˈdʒɛn də /


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“The Revolutionary Guard are setting the agenda and the pace,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Iran has "never had on its agenda any dangerous measures in cyberspace and does not support such moves", spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari said on state TV at the time.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

That distinction illustrates how Paoletta’s contribution is less about purported legal principles and more about legal authorities’ ability to operationalize the broader Vought agenda.

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

There is always one agenda swallowing another, a squeaky wheel crying out.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Things go in ways both expected and unexpected, the two couples warily feeling each other out as they wait to spring their own private agendas.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 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

But when those agendas conflict, these justices seem to relish the opportunity to remind the president that they can still tell him no anytime they please.

From Slate Apr. 1, 2026

Three overlapping reasons appear to have converged in Adams’s mind and provided decisive direction to a foreign policy that, until then, had been vacillating between the incompatible agendas of the Federalists and the Republicans.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

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)

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor




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