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An example use of agency in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… a little bit more agency and power in …”
Agency is a person or organization that is authorized to act on behalf of another.
the word agency occurs in english on average 41.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that agency can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;