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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

He tells reporters as much during a mini junket he organizes for himself over breakfast at the Ritz London, where Marty puts himself up despite having no way to pay for such luxurious accommodations.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2025

He recalled how once during a series of five-minute junket interviews, one journalist compared being an actor to being a liar and it sent Pearce into an existential tailspin.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 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

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

Mihalka envisions the space being used for events for partners, sponsors and advertisers as well as press junkets for new product launches.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2025

“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?

From BBC May 11, 2024

Simple desserts: junkets, cornstarch, sago or tapioca pudding, baked bananas, rice pudding, apple tapioca, orange tapioca, and ice cream.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

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

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

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

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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

Serious buyers from more than 100 nations and squadrons of national officials, including 58 junketing U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

People are still watching TV, a study says, but liking it less In Las Vegas, a city where optimism is an occupational hazard, junketing television broadcasters were dealt a bad hand last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Heathcotes are here, on their way to Rome, and, like all English people, eager to go everywhere, do everything, and know everybody; the consequence is eternal junketing and daily dinner-parties.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James




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