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junket

[juhng-kit] / ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt /
NOUN
a trip
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Disney was first, offering her a junket interview for the series Moon Knight, where she got to interview stars on the red carpet.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

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

Costs from hiring, junkets and pro-sport endorsements to build the retail operation added up and drew ire from other divisions, the current and former employees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

He conducted upbeat live interviews with actors and musicians from behind the anchor desk and was a mainstay at premiere red carpets and movie junkets.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

Coming from Hollywood, where many actors lament the rigors of one-day press junkets, the players’ accessibility seemed almost excessive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.

From The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

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

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

Vainly hoping to settle the question without offending either side, a committee of Amalgamated officials last week junketed to Coshocton, Ohio to see William Green.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have perseveringly frisked in the high places of iniquity, I have junketed with all evil gods, and the utmost they could pretend to offer any of their servitors was a spasm.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

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

People are still watching TV, a study says, but liking it less In Las Vegas, a city where optimism is an occupational hazard, junketing television broadcasters were dealt a bad hand last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even if all reporters were invulnerable to blandishment, the venerable practice of junketing would still be a sticky problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

I soon discovered that this was no junketing party; all were on business bent.

From Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller


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