junketed

Definition of junketednext
past tense of junket
as in honored
to entertain with a fancy meal a lobbyist who regularly junkets politicians who are friendly toward the oil industry

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  • Maurice and Jammy Davies honored their daughter Chelsea’s wishes and donated her liver to a Connecticut man named Patrick.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The students were honored at a pep rally Friday and will be treated to a lunch field trip next week at a restaurant of their choosing.
    Sophie Bates, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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  • Monkeys in the tourism hotspot have apparently learned to eat dirt to soothe stomach upsets caused by eating too much sweet, fatty and salty snacks fed to them by visitors, a new study found.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The eaglet, known as USS11, swallowed a fishing hook, line and lure while being fed by a parent.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
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  • Decades ago, Americans regaled their friends and neighbors with tales of their recent travels via slideshows presented at home on a Kodak Carousel projector.
    Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Nash’s Santa Clara teams had that under coach Dick Davey, whose lessons in mental toughness were regaled in Nash’s Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement speech.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
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  • Armenia was reliant on its close alliance with Russia for the first three decades of its existence, ensuring its protection against Azerbaijani attempts to take Nagorno-Karabakh, which was internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan but under the de facto control of Armenia.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Steven Hager, writing in the Village Voice, in 1982, gave the burgeoning scene in the Bronx the reportorial treatment, widely recognized as the first major newspaper acknowledgment of the turntable innovation that was happening uptown.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Junketed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junketed. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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