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

I did once spy him across the room at a cocktail party for Prince Andrew in the early 2000s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“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

“There’s some status assigned to that. You’re at a cocktail party talking about it,” Flach said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“But it’s a sort of grand evening cocktail party kind of thing, or a ball, something like that. There wouldn’t be any kids around anyway.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman