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junket

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

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

She ate a big plateful of cabbage and salmon and finished off with junket.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Mihalka envisions the space being used for events for partners, sponsors and advertisers as well as press junkets for new product launches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025

“At the first X Factor press junkets, journalists were saying, ‘Why are you here?

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.

From The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

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

With Whelan and the late Dictator Anastasio Somoza it was "Tommy" and "Tacho" from the start, and the friendship deepened as they partied, played poker, junketed around the country together.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

Gorbachev's junketing, while helping him become the toast of the world, has not halted the erosion of his position at home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls.

From Time Magazine Archive

His life should be one round of jollity and junketing, if he only would come and sit down at Letterkenny.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield




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