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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

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

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

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

“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

To-day the young King junkets with his flatterers, and but rarely thinks of England.

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

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

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

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

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

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

But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing.

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

Did they say it was a junketing we were bent upon?'

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever


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