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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

“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

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

“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

When lads and lasses merry be, With possets and with junkets fine; Unseen of all the company, I eat their cakes and sip their wine!

From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

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

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

Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

While many of the legislators actually use the work break for personal vacationing or global junketing, an impressive number do get around their regions and interrogate the voters about their views and their gripes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Admiral, what a good time we had there, junketing and dancing and flirting!

From English Society by George Du Maurier




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