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junket

[juhng-kit] / ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt /
NOUN
a trip
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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

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 10-minute-or-less junket slot isn’t much time, but it’s certainly not nothing.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2025

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

“Not the silly ass who managed to get himself drowned yesterday?” said Basil through a mouthful of hazelnut junket.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

His first show, “Entertainers With Byron Allen,” packaged the five-minute celebrity interviews during hotel press junkets, a conveyor belt of actors promoting their latest projects set up by the studios into an hourlong talk show.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

And no rules at the Guardian, apparently, regarding outrageous boondoggles and ocean-going junkets.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

“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

To all suggestions that they get out the canoes and go across to the island with the boys, or on other junkets, the girls responded with refusals.

From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Marlowe, Amy Bell

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

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

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

Fortnight ago it throttled. 41-to-26, the University of California, which by next week will have junketed 6,000 miles to display its talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this end alone they consulted, and caballed, and calculated, and junketed; and the Lecompton Constitution, with the Schedule annexed, was the worthy fruit of their labors.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various

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

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

I soon discovered that this was no junketing party; all were on business bent.

From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne




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