junket
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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
The Salvador leg of the junket had little to do with China.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
“It’s a bit like a dreamscape,” Luhrmann, 63, says of the movie as he sits in a suite at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills near the end of a recent press junket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
But just one month before Dorothy’s trip from Farmville, Air Scoop covered Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox’s one-day junket to the laboratory.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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There are parties, festivals, For Your Consideration screenings, press junkets and talk show appearances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
With some exceptions — non-studio productions approved by the union — performers are prohibited from promoting their films at press junkets or on red carpets.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
For to what purpose were it to clog our stomachs with dainties, junkets, and the like stuff, unless our eyes and ears, nay whole mind, were likewise entertained with jests, merriments, and laughter?
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
He did a bit of loafing, broke out his bow and arrow for archery practice, gave a few parties, junketed off to Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With Whelan and the late Dictator Anastasio Somoza it was "Tommy" and "Tacho" from the start, and the friendship deepened as they partied, played poker, junketed around the country together.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans Hughes junketed to London in 1924 with the American Bar Association and Frank Billings Kellogg went to Cuba for the 1928 Pan-American Conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For this end alone they consulted, and caballed, and calculated, and junketed; and the Lecompton Constitution, with the Schedule annexed, was the worthy fruit of their labors.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various
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
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Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Marian was genuinely interested and liked to hear Chicken Little tell it all, but she wondered what Mrs. Morton had thought about the junketing.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
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