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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

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

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

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

With some exceptions — non-studio productions approved by the union — performers are prohibited from promoting their films at press junkets or on red carpets.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Cyprian is driving mamma to a round of afternoon teas and other junkets.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marian was genuinely interested and liked to hear Chicken Little tell it all, but she wondered what Mrs. Morton had thought about the junketing.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie


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