junketed

verb

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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  1. honored
  2. fed
  3. regaled
  4. recognized
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  • There is another $14 billion arms package yet to be honored by Washington as well.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • One panel named two brothers; another panel honored a mother and her two-year-old son.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of honored
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  • Lars Eller fed Jones coming down the left side just as Dmitry Kulikov was coming out of the penalty box.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The landscape is framed by 150 specimen trees sourced from the New York Botanical Garden and a sprawling, spring-fed pond.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of fed
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  • Turturro regaled attendees with stories about his impressive stage career.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Woods, in response, regaled a tongue-in-cheek story about pitching movie ideas to Ruffalo.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of regaled
Verb
  • Curie's initial Nobel was for physics, but the second, for chemistry in 1911, recognized her work on polonium and the isolation of pure radium.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
  • He is recognized as the teen prodigy who went missing a decade prior, and his return as an up-and-coming conductor is heralded.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of recognized
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“Junketed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junketed. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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