panjandrum

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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. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panjandrum
Noun
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
Noun
  • Meanwhile, a baron’s daughter falls deeply in love with a clergyman, defiantly forgoing societal expectations to experience true love.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Ransom Eli Olds was one of the most influential auto barons of his time, credited with being the first to design an assembly line for vehicle manfacturing.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As the fashion types begin to migrate to New York for the start of fashion week, the C-suite bigwigs were leaning in on Wall Street, courting investors at Goldman Sachs’ annual retail conference.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Any corporate bigwig who doesn’t donate generously to Trump’s presidential library — or to Republican campaigns — may soon be a former corporate bigwig.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The China tariff deal—not yet done—is the big kahuna in all of this.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But EnCharge is entering a competitive field, and among the competitors is the big kahuna, Nvidia.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • The president has long been a fixture of New York City as a real estate mogul and pop culture figure in tabloids, TV and film before moving to Florida in 2019.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Bash is an internet and technology mogul who became one of the wealthiest people in the world from his tech empire.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His daughter, philanthropist Mitzi Perdue, widow of the late poultry magnate Frank Perdue, is among the heirs selling the 104-acre spread for $15 million, co-listed with Compass agents Sean Bakhtiari and Colby Coppage.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The American Century that publishing magnate Henry Luce famously described in 1941 has to all intents and purposes come to an end.
    John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So far, the response has been strikingly muted given the eminence of the signatories.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Alterman used his cultural eminence to exhort the Israeli government to hold on to the territories taken in the war.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The drama, also starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, was a monument to dramatic realism, so serious in its attempt to capture the truth that the production took bags of trash from the real-life Post offices and used the papers on the set.
    Stephen Galloway, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Amphibious cars are a monument to indecision, never perfected, always a compromise of some sort but often in their weird way sublime, like the Sea Lion Amphibious Prototype heading for auction this weekend.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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