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The backstory Originally built in 1854 as a private residence for Napoleon III’s half-brother, the Duc de Morny, the house was eventually acquired by fashion panjandrum Pierre Cardin, an enthusiastic collector of historically significant Parisian real estate.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Jan. 2026
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.
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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.
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Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2021
Calvin Klein, the panjandrum of pants, sold his beach house there for $84.4m.
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The Economist,
13 Mar. 2021
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Jan. 2026
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
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But all the nattering nabobs of negativism who’d normally have been concentrating on Maura’s catastrophic first term had to devote at least a little attention to recounting one of the Wu Klux Klan’s more embarrassing moments of 2025.
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
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Cruise sports a thick Southern accent, a beer belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play the oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
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Lipstye and others worried that Shelter Island was becoming a place dominated by wealthy barons who weren’t necessarily invested in the community — a place, in short, like the South Fork.
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Naturally, Bravo’s bigwigs and Cohen were pretty peeved to see gossip sites scooping them on their own reunion.
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Immediately afterwards, international dance music bigwigs such as Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou took over the sound system to get everyone on the dance floor.
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The big kahuna of hotels here is Ocean Edge Resort, a historic Victorian mansion on a bluff overlooking the scenic Cape Cod Bay.
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Then White caught the big kahuna.
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Earlier this spring, the media mogul stepped out in New York City wearing the Crocs Soho Y-Strap Sandals, a platform style that delivers the leg-lengthening effect of heels without the usual discomfort.
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Many of the Silicon Valley tech moguls who oppose the measure have already moved their assets to other states or threatened to do so to avoid the possible tax.
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Jolie balked at the term and struck a $64 million deal with the billionaire alcohol magnate, Yuri Shefler.
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The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
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After Mike Piazza’s towering fly ball settled into the web of Bernie Williams’s mitt to finish off yet another save for Mariano Rivera, Roger, needing only his twinkly eminence as a press pass, led the way to the champagne shower in the Yankees locker room.
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Emery’s eminence in Europe has been predicated on managing two-legged contests, knowing that the pace and rhythm is different.
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Today there are various monuments on the land, including Revolutionary War, World War I and II, Spanish American War and Vietnam War.
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Inside, the house reads less as a monument to excess than a deft riposte to the cold minimalism of decades past.
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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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