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
I find it deeply personal to photograph someone in their own home: There is a level of comfort and intimacy that comes through that you can’t always capture at a press junket in a ballroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
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
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His first show, “Entertainers With Byron Allen,” packaged the five-minute celebrity interviews during hotel press junkets, a conveyor belt of actors promoting their latest projects set up by the studios into an hourlong talk show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
Likewise junkets an' heavy cake be a responsibility, for if not eaten quick, they perish.
From I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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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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
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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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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
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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
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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Mayor Key first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The bishop seems moved by a conviction that the local Protestants are anticipating a junketing of this kind with even more eagerness than the Catholics.
From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by David Hunter Blair
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