dinner

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The annual dinner draws Washington journalists, administration officials, celebrities and entertainers.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Earlier this year Rupert Murdoch, the controlling shareholder of Fox, expressed his concerns about the matter to President Donald Trump at a dinner at the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Finally, he motioned the audience to stop, like, “OK. OK. Enough. Let’s go have dinner and a drink.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

An orangutan mom doesn’t have a partner to make dinner or put on a dress for—orangutans live mostly alone—but she does handle all the homemaking and childcare herself.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

The way that certain other parents made their kids go to church, Jonah’s parents made him and Katherine sit down at the dinner table with them just about every night.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix