Thesaurus results for JUNKETS

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noun

plural of junket

as in excursions

a short trip for pleasure took a junket to the city for some sightseeing and shopping

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junkets

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verb

present tense third-person singular of junket

as in honors

to entertain with a fancy meal a lobbyist who regularly junkets politicians who are friendly toward the oil industry

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Recent Examples of junkets

Noun

Disney offered creators a wide variety of future opportunities, including set visits, press junkets and red carpet interviews with talent. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Xi has spent recent weeks on a rare series of overseas diplomatic junkets, sharing his own pitch for China’s leadership and worldview. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026 The aides arranged press junkets, invented sources, and planted stories that brazenly inverted popular views. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 Bullock and Kidman have been doing the talk shows, the junkets, and even Therapuss. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2026 Creators often give much more detail than similar postings by traditional media that use short-form presentations or are filmed during press junkets. — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026 John Henry Days poked fun at press junkets while asking serious questions about the man behind the myth. — Literary Hub, 28 July 2026 More Choice is funded by Independent Voters Project, an advocacy nonprofit that backed the 2010 top two system and sponsors annual junkets for state lawmakers in Hawaii and Mexico alongside business leaders. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026 When studio movies come to the Croisette, they’re accompanied by stars on the red carpet and parties and marketing junkets. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 May 2026

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Noun

As winter set in, Hopper made numerous excursions, trekking up to the Dixie Kitchen diner in Midtown to sketch the coffee urns, as well as salt and pepper shakers, cups, and napkin dispensers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
To speed up the mission and reduce risk, the initial moon walkers will wear a lighter, less complex space suit than the one still under development by Axiom Space for longer, subsequent excursions.

— Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of excursions

Verb

Chick-fil-A will demolish one of its remaining Dwarf Houses south of Atlanta to build a restaurant concept that honors its founder.

— Amy Wenk, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026
In 2025, Fisher was a finalist for both the Butkus Award, which honors the nation’s top linebacker, and the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year, which recognizes a player’s leadership, integrity and sportsmanship off the field.

— Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of honors

Noun

Now, Good maintains Three Pines Bird Sanctuary while hosting bird tours around the area.

— Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
The podcast has previously held live tours across 70 cities, including two shows at Radio City Music Hall, and sparked a New York Times bestselling book, How to Giggle.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of tours

Verb

Trump regularly regales audiences with his prowess as a dealmaker by recounting conversations he's had with Macron about trade irritants, mimicking Macron's responses in an exaggerated accent.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
Aboard the boat, Terry regales his passengers with tales of the river, from namesake Twain to tragic Lovers' Leap just downstream of Hannibal.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026

Definition of regales

Verb

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, left, dines at King Taco in East Los Angeles with LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano and his father Lorenzo Arellano, not pictured, on Thursday, October 1, 2026.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
The cocktails are available to any guest who dines at Broken Shaker.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of dines

Verb

Aza Raskin had a part in creating the slick social media feeds that engross us today.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
By 2015, New Atlas was covering innovations such as the Diamond Hotend, which combined three filament feeds into a single nozzle, although even that approach could produce waste towers when changing colors.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of feeds

Verb

Jordan Clarkson, New York Clarkson rebirthed his career in New York as a role-playing bench wing who feasts on offensive boards (no, really) and plays more defense than the Utah version.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Well, Sydney feasts a little bit at the end.

— Claire Messud, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026

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