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junket

[juhng-kit] / ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt /
NOUN
a trip
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Ken Bensinger, a New York Times reporter who covers media and politics, wrote about this junket of Loomer’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

In March 2024, several dozen insurance agents from the U.S. took part in a three-day junket in and around Medellín, Colombia, where Regan lived and worked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

He tells reporters as much during a mini junket he organizes for himself over breakfast at the Ritz London, where Marty puts himself up despite having no way to pay for such luxurious accommodations.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025

He recalled how once during a series of five-minute junket interviews, one journalist compared being an actor to being a liar and it sent Pearce into an existential tailspin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

A morning train brought Mayor Thompson back into the city from a political junket in Wyoming.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Costs from hiring, junkets and pro-sport endorsements to build the retail operation added up and drew ire from other divisions, the current and former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Among those let go is Dean Richards, WGN’s long time entertainment reporter and critic who has been a fixture at Hollywood press junkets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Press junkets and red carpet interviews for superhero movies have been condensed to five-minute timeslots and two-question interviews, respectively — and that’s if a journalist is lucky.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

Cyprian is driving mamma to a round of afternoon teas and other junkets.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose

While Nasser junketed through Soviet Russia, his press grandly proclaimed that the German "loan," along with an earlier $175 million Soviet credit, would enable Egypt to fulfill its five-year plan in three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fortnight ago it throttled. 41-to-26, the University of California, which by next week will have junketed 6,000 miles to display its talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans Hughes junketed to London in 1924 with the American Bar Association and Frank Billings Kellogg went to Cuba for the 1928 Pan-American Conference.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vainly hoping to settle the question without offending either side, a committee of Amalgamated officials last week junketed to Coshocton, Ohio to see William Green.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On a modern marketing budget, that would barely cover the junketing cast's travel and minibar expenses, but at the time, the advertising reach was, as The Times wrote in 1975, "a promotion man's dream."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015

It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

Their thoughts range freely across the complexities of foreign aid to Iran, say, or the possibilities of interplanetary junketing, just as they keep pace with the fantasies and the donkey work of their jobs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mayor Key first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure."

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth is that he was not in the mood for junketing.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang


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