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Recent Examples of panjandrum
The president’s bellowing recitation of his accomplishments served as a vivid reminder of the bullet so recently deflected by Nancy Pelosi and her ruthless fellow Democratic Party panjandrums by hustling the would-be nominee into political oblivion.
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Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Bamford, while cutting in and out of the lives of Hollywood’s panjandrums, takes us to Pyongyang, where Kim’s minions are stealing money and cryptocurrency while wreaking havoc on computer systems around the world.
—Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
The posh, wild-bearded panjandrum of the anti-aging movement, de Grey was born in London in 1963.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
Calvin Klein, the panjandrum of pants, sold his beach house there for $84.4m.
—The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
The forum, for its part, will drum up support for the venture among the world’s panjandrums—and with luck some dosh as well.
—The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
The industry’s panjandrums insist that a new culture of compliance will make FDA site closures a thing of the past.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
The forum, for its part, will drum up support for the venture among the world’s panjandrums—and with luck some dosh as well.
—The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Bamford, while cutting in and out of the lives of Hollywood’s panjandrums, takes us to Pyongyang, where Kim’s minions are stealing money and cryptocurrency while wreaking havoc on computer systems around the world.
—Tim Weiner, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
The posh, wild-bearded panjandrum of the anti-aging movement, de Grey was born in London in 1963.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
Calvin Klein, the panjandrum of pants, sold his beach house there for $84.4m.
—The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
The forum, for its part, will drum up support for the venture among the world’s panjandrums—and with luck some dosh as well.
—The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
The industry’s panjandrums insist that a new culture of compliance will make FDA site closures a thing of the past.
—The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
The forum, for its part, will drum up support for the venture among the world’s panjandrums—and with luck some dosh as well.
—The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panjandrum
Noun
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Inside the transformation of the Frick Collection One of New York City's most exquisite museums, the Frick Collection, located in the former home of a Gilded Age steel baron, has reopened following a four-year, more than $200 million renovation.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Across the country, millions of viewers eagerly await the last episode of the iconic show with Walter and Jesse becoming drug barons.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Join 13 others in the comments View Comments Apart from more details on the reserve, industry bigwigs (who’ve long complained that the Biden administration was strangling crypto) are looking forward to some basic regulatory guidance.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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With that in mind, backing new filmmakers with wild projects and bucking the kind of risk aversion that seems to govern modern Hollywood comes down to intuition — and maybe pissing off a few industry bigwigs along the way.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
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This has to be a big kahuna, among records Swift could break that go back to the very beginning of the album chart.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 June 2024
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The big kahuna, Photoshop itself, costs a minimum of $9.99 per month, but that subscription also includes Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and 20GB of cloud storage.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
10 May 2024
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The music mogul's legal team has responded to the prosecutors' requests about which evidence should be included – or excluded – in court documents filed in the Southern District of New York April 22.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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In perpetrator countries, most people were passive witnesses, but there was also considerable participation by elites including artists, university professors, Catholic and Protestant clergy, media moguls, business leaders, and even physicians.—
Robert Williams,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Around the same time, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate magnate who has been heavily involved in the negotiations with Russia, mused about the possibilities for U.S.-Russian collaboration in an interview with the commentator Tucker Carlson.—
Stacie E. Goddard,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Zuckerberg, who was recently revealed as the buyer of a $23 million mansion with a 10-minute commute to the White House, is but the latest of the Silicon Valley magnates flocking to the area’s high-end homes, making ripples in the luxury real estate market as well as in politics.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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But adults going gaga for the Rizzler cannot be what passes for culture in the interim — not least because their endorsement signals to a nation of other impressionable children that asinine eminence is something to aspire to.—
Helen Holmes,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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At Davos Worldwide, his eminence Shyalpa Rinpoche and other global leaders outlined the Four Pillars for Lasting Peace: 1.—
Dr. Adil Dalal,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Officials are now working to preserve the historic domes of the monument — built between 532 and 537 AD — from the threat of earthquakes.—
Ashley J. DiMella Fox News,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The following day, an image of a faux Mount Rushmore featuring Eminem, Paul Wall, Russ, and the late Mac Miller (the original rappers proposed to be on the fictional monument) surfaced on social media.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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