junketing

present participle of junket
as in feeding
to entertain with a fancy meal a lobbyist who regularly junkets politicians who are friendly toward the oil industry

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Verb
  • However, ticks go through several stages in their life cycle while feeding on different animal hosts like mice and deer.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
  • These are important tools used for both feeding and building their dens and digging for other menu items such as mice, gophers, voles and shrews.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • His mind was as sharp as a tack, again regaling us with amazing hockey stories.
    Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • Telling his fellow actors about this, Powell came off a bit like a war veteran regaling his fellow servicemembers with a particularly harrowing story.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • There’s plenty to see and do on this one street—stop by Colonial Park Cemetery, established in 1750; the Juliet Gordon Low Birthplace Museum, honoring the founder of the Girl Scouts; then grab a bite at Marbled & Fin, where luxe appetizers and aged steaks reign supreme.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2026
  • Bidders will also find capes, drapes, peignoirs, jumpsuits, fur coats and red, white and blue ensemble that Ann-Margret wore for a performance at the White House, when President Gerald Ford was honoring the Shah of Iran.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • Before the group came out, a group of extras mimed drinking tea and feasting on pastries, with pinky fingers aloft — per the song’s innate spoofing of the etiquette stereotypically associated with tea drinking.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 May 2026
  • Having Fox on the court would help mitigate some of this, but OKC is feasting on any little miscue.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 21 May 2026
Verb
  • Studio had some formidable shoes to fill, replacing the eponymous and long-beloved French fine-dining institution that had defined special-occasion fine dining in Laguna Beach for more than twenty years.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
  • Reader Heather Fargo wrote in with a number of suggestions for dining outdoors in North and South Natomas, such as Bella Bru, CharQterie, Helic Bistro, Mezcal Grill, El Bramido and The Virgin Sturgeon, which floats on the Sacramento River.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
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“Junketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junketing. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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