junket
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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
A 10-minute-or-less junket slot isn’t much time, but it’s certainly not nothing.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
He recalled how once during a series of five-minute junket interviews, one journalist compared being an actor to being a liar and it sent Pearce into an existential tailspin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
But just one month before Dorothy’s trip from Farmville, Air Scoop covered Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox’s one-day junket to the laboratory.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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
Press junkets and red carpet interviews for superhero movies have been condensed to five-minute timeslots and two-question interviews, respectively — and that’s if a journalist is lucky.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
The cardinal was right enough when he said that high junkets were to be held.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
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
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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
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He did a bit of loafing, broke out his bow and arrow for archery practice, gave a few parties, junketed off to Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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While Nasser junketed through Soviet Russia, his press grandly proclaimed that the German "loan," along with an earlier $175 million Soviet credit, would enable Egypt to fulfill its five-year plan in three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
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While many of the legislators actually use the work break for personal vacationing or global junketing, an impressive number do get around their regions and interrogate the voters about their views and their gripes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The formal engagement was marked by even greater junketing, and at last the marriage-day came.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
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