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
“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
For every thoughtful, interesting question asked of an artist on a red carpet or during a junket, there are three more vapid ones, and offenders almost always have a tiny microphone.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
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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Costs from hiring, junkets and pro-sport endorsements to build the retail operation added up and drew ire from other divisions, the current and former employees said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
There are parties, festivals, For Your Consideration screenings, press junkets and talk show appearances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
“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
He had fought and starved, and now for the jingle of the guinea in his pocket and the junkets of the gay!
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
He did a bit of loafing, broke out his bow and arrow for archery practice, gave a few parties, junketed off to Manhattan.
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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Between tours she junketed on a Portuguese tramp steamer with a cargo of wild animals and a mad captain.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Gorbachev's junketing, while helping him become the toast of the world, has not halted the erosion of his position at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The truth is that he was not in the mood for junketing.
From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang
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