junketed

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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Verb
  • Hours after being honored with a parade in Omaha, the 38-year-old boxer was held at gunpoint by local police during a traffic stop.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Over the course of her six-decade career, she’s been honored with four Golden Globes, three Grammys, three Emmys, two Tonys, and a Kennedy Center Honor, with two Oscar nominations as well, as previously mentioned.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Like his Washington, Bargatze’s Farnsworth regaled a trio of underlings (SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson) with ridiculous yet accurate predictions for the future, in this case of TV.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Appel also regaled the audience with his strategy that resulted in Springsteen getting on the cover of both Time and Newsweek.
    Caryn Rose, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Air-to-water heat pumps still take heat from outside air, but instead of heating the air in a home, it’s fed into a wet central heating system which works kind of like gas central heating.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Rain-fed fields in arid areas that had relied on dry farming for centuries were converted to water-intensive farms growing rice, and alfalfa.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After Robinson’s parents recognized their son in surveillance footage released by police, his father confronted his son on the phone, according to the charging document.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Court recognized that civil rights activism required controversial and disorderly speech.
    Time, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Junketed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junketed. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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