social occasion
Example Sentences
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The summer spectaculars coincided with the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, a new reason to make going to the movies a big, social occasion again.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023
"It would not have been normal practice for civil servants or security staff to have accompanied me to such a private, social occasion," he wrote.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022
In a way that chatting up dozens of people all day might not have been energizing, had it been just a social occasion?
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2021
It could have been at a news conference, a social occasion or both.
From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021
We were meant to remember pearls pattering at a certain social occasion.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
