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banquets

NOUN
formal dinner, usually ceremonial
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Kim, absorbing North Korea’s first major combat losses in many decades, has lavished surviving families with banquets, gold medals and new Pyongyang apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

By February the next year, she was appearing on postage stamps and attending banquets for top officials - described as Kim Jong Un's "respected" daughter.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

How would fellow merchants or visiting dignitaries know about these luxe banquets once all those enviable perishables had been consumed?

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2024

He combined the fire of his old boss Molina and the bon vivant verve of Alatorre’s crew to work the picket lines as easily as he did banquets.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

But in the morning, in real life, perhaps half a million, not-yet-dead ants that had fed at the volunteer’s various poisoned banquets were writhing on the smokehouse floor.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols



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