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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

After acquiring the film’s distribution rights on the star power of Kemp’s name alone, Netflix has organized the junket as a pre-production preview to tout its next big awards contender.

From Salon Jan. 13, 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

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

And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

She loved the rush of promotion and press junkets, moving from five-star hotel to five-star hotel, a massive shift from her time as a theater actor.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2024

“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 all suggestions that they get out the canoes and go across to the island with the boys, or on other junkets, the girls responded with refusals.

From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe

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

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

Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain.

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

Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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

Archdeacon Graham White sniffed, flatly announced that his Anglican Cathedral would under no circumstances be used to marry the junketing pair.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I'd just whistle through life in junketing and tra-ra-la.

From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann




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