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junket

[juhng-kit] / ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt /
NOUN
a trip
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Ken Bensinger, a New York Times reporter who covers media and politics, wrote about this junket of Loomer’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

In March 2024, several dozen insurance agents from the U.S. took part in a three-day junket in and around Medellín, Colombia, where Regan lived and worked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

After acquiring the film’s distribution rights on the star power of Kemp’s name alone, Netflix has organized the junket as a pre-production preview to tout its next big awards contender.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

He recalled how once during a series of five-minute junket interviews, one journalist compared being an actor to being a liar and it sent Pearce into an existential tailspin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

On his daily junket to town, Amarante Cordova had to climb over a dozen dead cottonwood trees that lay in his way like king-sized hurdles.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Press junkets and red carpet interviews for superhero movies have been condensed to five-minute timeslots and two-question interviews, respectively — and that’s if a journalist is lucky.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

Mihalka envisions the space being used for events for partners, sponsors and advertisers as well as press junkets for new product launches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

And, all through the country, joy returned with them, and there was happiness for the wives and mothers; and junkets in the taverns where the beautiful barmaids of Paimpol served out drink to the fishers.

From An Iceland Fisherman by M. Jules Cambon

He has joked, junketed to race tracks, sat up all night at wild parties, entertained Hollywood and ignored the city's problems.

From Time Magazine Archive

In July the group junketed off to cool San Francisco for the five-day meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Brezhnev junketed around the country in connection with the Lenin celebrations, he enjoyed a sudden burst of publicity that struck many Western diplomats as extremely unusual.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Nasser junketed through Soviet Russia, his press grandly proclaimed that the German "loan," along with an earlier $175 million Soviet credit, would enable Egypt to fulfill its five-year plan in three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On a modern marketing budget, that would barely cover the junketing cast's travel and minibar expenses, but at the time, the advertising reach was, as The Times wrote in 1975, "a promotion man's dream."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015

It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters were so disgusted at junketing county commissioners that they voted down a bond issue for schools.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must know, Blanche is eighteen on the festival of St. Therese, and we have a junketing forward which has set the whole province astir.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy


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