cocktail party

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Recent Examples of cocktail party The event can be a formal sit-down dinner with your family, a backyard cocktail party with live music, 100 guests, and catering, or a casual get-together at a bar with your local crew. Shelby Wax, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2025 The costars were invited to a cocktail party with the rest of the cast. Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025 This poached shrimp can be served at a myriad of events, from a backyard barbecue to a holiday cocktail party. Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025 Ahead of the cocktail party, everyone spends their time whispering to each other about which two women to vote out. EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cocktail party
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cocktail party
Noun
  • At the time, the right wing of the Republican Party was captured in the tea party movement, with activists arguing for limited government.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Use it at your next tea party or whenever dehydration strikes.
    Elissa Suh, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This high school house party is filling up fast.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And, toward the back of the arena, there was a squat pink casita that was hosting a raucous house party.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sánchez won this thing for the second time in six weeks with 31.4 percent of your votes, on the strength of—how fitting—her hen party in Paris.
    George Kalogerakis, Air Mail, 31 May 2025
  • Scottish hen parties were deemed to contain ritualistic profanation.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Still, the findings hint that raspberry leaf tea may support glucose control as a gentle, accessible complement to medication or other standard treatments.
    Christina Manian, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Participating restaurants include Smoke Queen BBQ, Los Sanchez, Kaju Soft Tofu, Smoking Ribs, Barrio, Pho Redbo, Bò no Nabe, Los Cotijas Taco Shop, Phuc Long (coffee and tea), Carolina’s Italian Restaurant, Azteca, Tomy’s Fast-N-Fresh Burger, Sabroso!
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In just 25 minutes—and with only six main ingredients—this pasta delivers a breezy, elegant supper that feels both simple and sophisticated.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Those looking to make some nocturnal memories will want to check out their weekend residency with NYC nightlife destination GOSPËL hosting supper-club style parties through September 6.
    Rana Good, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That weekend, K-pop rookie group 1VERSE (Saturday) and Chinese American artist Sunkis (Sunday) were set to perform, offering special VIP packages for a meet and greet, selfie Polaroids, and send-offs.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The event is free, and will include a question-and-answer portion as well as a meet and greet.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Zhang Yiming, ByteDance's founder, was among the entrepreneurs invited to a high-level symposium chaired by President Xi Jinping in February.
    Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Honda conducts an annual symposium in Japan where engineers and researchers from across the company including HRC gather to present and publish papers on their developments.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since the sketch comedy series premiered, the total impressions have hit around 150 million with total views on full episodes reaching 1.5 million, an impressive number for something thats only being pushed on socials and only found on YouTube.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Lacy’s been teasing the project in plain sight, wearing merch for the album in photos on his socials, all while fans clamor for new music.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Cocktail party.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cocktail%20party. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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