cocktail party

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And as MAGAdom rounded into shape, and I started telling my girlfriend about Milo Yiannopoulos, she said, “Rather than talking about this guy at a cocktail party, you should be writing a newsletter about it.”

From Slate • May 7, 2026

The next day, to prepare for a cocktail party and dinner, the women in Campbell’s group had their hair teased into bouffants, using a photo of Raquel Welch as inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

“He’s calm as a monk in a firefight,” Craig Renaud says, “but a cocktail party in Brooklyn is absolutely terrifying.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Dimon needed to get to his own company’s cocktail party at the nearby Kirchner Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

In fact, Elizabeth had met her husband at a cocktail party the Richardsons had thrown some years before; he had been a colleague of Mr. Richardson’s.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng