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Two years later, John C. Doerfer, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, likewise bowed out when it was revealed he had vacationed on the yacht of a wealthy friend.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

We had vacationed together for years and there was no change in how we did the arrangements.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2022

He told The Post that his family had vacationed in Mexico — in Puerto Vallarta and Oaxaca — since Tatiana was a little girl.

From Fox News • Dec. 16, 2018

The school was situated a snowball’s throw from the chalet inn where my family had vacationed each winter while my father was alive.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

Rick, Scotty, and Barbara Brant had only recently returned from the South Pacific where they had vacationed aboard the trawler Tarpon and had solved the mystery of The Phantom Shark.

From Smugglers' Reef by Blaine, John