cocktail party

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“He’s calm as a monk in a firefight,” Craig Renaud says, “but a cocktail party in Brooklyn is absolutely terrifying.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

On Wednesday night, at a cocktail party, Scaramucci said it looked like he had been proven right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

These five WSJ readers shared how they found ways back into the workforce, from crashing a cocktail party to working part-time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 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

Finally, at a cocktail party in late March, she spotted him.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin