cocktail party
Example Sentences
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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
On Wednesday night, at a cocktail party, Scaramucci said it looked like he had been proven right.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
He said the most recent time they ran into each other was more than 10 years ago, at a cocktail party.
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2025
An enormous cocktail party was not on Ibsen’s itinerary—there is no jazz band in “Hedda Gabler”—but there was a similar sense of impending disaster, before and during the evening in question.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
It was the precursor to the cocktail party effect, named by another British researcher, Edward Colin Cherry, in 1953.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
