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The summer spectaculars coincided with the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, a new reason to make going to the movies a big, social occasion again.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023

Mr Miles also said it was a "social occasion and no ministerial business was discussed".

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2022

In a way that chatting up dozens of people all day might not have been energizing, had it been just a social occasion?

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2021

It could have been at a news conference, a social occasion or both.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

Oh, how hard it is to make sense of a social occasion from the train of a dress.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck