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
Following the premiere of “After the Hunt” at the 82nd annual Venice Film Festival last August, journalist Federica Polidoro sat for a junket interview with the film’s stars, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025
On a travel junket that inspired his first book, “Innocents Abroad,” Twain saw a portrait of his future wife, Olivia “Livy” Langdon.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
A morning train brought Mayor Thompson back into the city from a political junket in Wyoming.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Among those let go is Dean Richards, WGN’s long time entertainment reporter and critic who has been a fixture at Hollywood press junkets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
Simple desserts: junkets, cornstarch, sago or tapioca pudding, baked bananas, rice pudding, apple tapioca, orange tapioca, and ice cream.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
Fortnight ago it throttled. 41-to-26, the University of California, which by next week will have junketed 6,000 miles to display its talent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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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
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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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Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But all was vain; right across the door lay that god-fearing householder, Paaaeua, feigning sleep; and my friends had to forego their junketing.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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