panjandrums

variants also panjandra
plural of panjandrum

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Noun
  • Sharon and Expectation met with then BBC content boss Charlotte Moore and other bigwigs at the British public broadcaster, and Home to Roost was set up as a ten-part BBC series that would follow the return home.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Connect with people on every level, from team members to bigwigs.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the grab bag of parts—cheese barons, Nazis—never comes together, and the old obsessions never acquire new force.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Season 2, Cross is in pursuit of a ruthless vigilante who is hunting down corrupt billionaire magnates.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Now the second season finds Cross in pursuit of a ruthless vigilante hunting down corrupt billionaire magnates.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The comments come amid longtime rumors of a feud between the beauty moguls, which stems from Gomez’s past romance with Hailey’s now-husband Justin Bieber.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The building served as a guesthouse for important visitors and dignitaries, and was first uncovered by a team of German archeologists between 1875 and 1881, per the Greek Ministry of Culture.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Several other dignitaries, active-duty troops and family members attended the event on base.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Natisha Hiedeman scored 19 points off the bench and reserve Maria Kliundikova added eight, including a trio of big shots in the fourth.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Hundred offers a cosy domestic dose of garish colors, potato crisp team sponsors and big shots.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Panjandrums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrums. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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