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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

The Salvador leg of the junket had little to do with China.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

On a travel junket that inspired his first book, “Innocents Abroad,” Twain saw a portrait of his future wife, Olivia “Livy” Langdon.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

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

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

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

And we are grateful for all this, to say nothing of your cider and your junkets.

From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans Hughes junketed to London in 1924 with the American Bar Association and Frank Billings Kellogg went to Cuba for the 1928 Pan-American Conference.

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

I have perseveringly frisked in the high places of iniquity, I have junketed with all evil gods, and the utmost they could pretend to offer any of their servitors was a spasm.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

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

In Gwinnett County, Ga., voters were so disgusted at junketing county commissioners that they voted down a bond issue for schools.

From Time Magazine Archive

Continuing their junketing round of Southeast Asian nations in search of money and sympathy, the two arrived at Manila, where they got plenty of sympathy.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had not withdrawn him from their late junketing whatever her spells.

From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie


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