banquet
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Sher and his aide and friend Kip Lipper attended a 2010 banquet in San Francisco at which the California League of Conservation Voters honored Justice Newsom with the Byron Sher Lifetime Achievement Award.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
A 12-course banquet of huff and puff finally brought to an end by one of the few bouts of coherent football that led to Ryan Naderi's winner.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Leonor said her sister and brother, who co-own a banquet hall in the city of Commerce, soon lost a year’s worth of bookings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
“This is a lovely banquet, Balekin, son of Eldred,” Queen Orlagh says.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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Industry executives say caterers now clamor for foie gras to add a luxurious touch to weddings and banquets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
From there they started staging events to raise money for heritage projects – and success in that led to the banquets.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Describing himself as a Catholic from the impoverished aristocracy and an entrepreneur, he says it would offend against both his ethics and his business sense to exclude people from the banquets.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
They’re having their banquets and the winner is being paid and there is cheering and I still have four days to go to finish.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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He met with Lao president Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would “mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos”.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2016
After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Following greetings, Chiang and his friends banqueted on fried shrimp, stuffed chicken and mandarin fish with sweet and sour sauce at Hangchow's famed Lou Wai Restaurant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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“The extravagant gifting and banqueting and entertaining that fueled one big sector of imported wine has evaporated,” said Ian Ford, founding partner of Nimbility, an Asia-based beverage consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
As photos on the academy website show, this was the last of the banqueting Oscars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
It acted as a banqueting hall - though was so large other smaller halls had to be built nearby for some occasions and the royal household usually ate in one of those.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2022
Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
Whatever had taken place in the banqueting hall after my departure, there was now a genuinely celebratory atmosphere amongst the guests.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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