agenda
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The topic remained at the top of the news agenda, from protests to legal challenges and court cases.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
In a moment of such great uncertainty, Kanbei becomes the one person Murashige can trust, although his counsel might contain a hidden agenda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"We will discuss all the issues on the agenda, first and foremost Iran. Naturally, our goal is to safeguard our security and also to expand the circle of peace around us," he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
But she has spent that time directing the legislative agenda of her party, Popular Force, while campaigning for the presidency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“The subject will be at the top of our agenda for the next conclave,” he announced.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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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
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
It was abandoned after Napoleon’s fall in 1814 and then completed, very slowly, by a series of architects under three different monarchs and several competing agendas.
From Salon ● May 3, 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
Diana should have insisted on printing the agendas.
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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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)
Others are finer still Caesar's energy is rivalled by the line— "Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum."
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
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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