cocktail party

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And as MAGAdom rounded into shape, and I started telling my girlfriend about Milo Yiannopoulos, she said, “Rather than talking about this guy at a cocktail party, you should be writing a newsletter about it.”

From Slate • May 7, 2026

The night before they had to give the sign painter a decision, on their way home from a cocktail party, Doris said: “The Gap.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

He said the most recent time they ran into each other was more than 10 years ago, at a cocktail party.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025

“Hey, X, when you go to a cocktail party, you pick up a little conversation here, another conversation there,” Disney told the animator.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

At the end of a cocktail party, a crowd of people would sit rapt at Tomkins’s feet.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell