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 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
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The town of about 9,000 people was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Aug. 2025
  • Founded in the late 1800s by copper barons who made their fortunes from nearby mines, it is still marked by a towering, now-defunct smelter stack that dominates the skyline.
    Jenna Sundel Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Rumors are afloat that the Trump administration, to help Adams get reelected, will offer Sliwa a big job in D.C. and that Republican bigwig John Catsimatidis will let Sliwa out of his WABC radio contract.
    Ken Frydman, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
  • Ellison has selected former NBCUniversal bigwig Jeff Shell as president, Dana Goldberg to run the film side and former Netflix content chief Cindy Holland to run Paramount+.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • The China tariff deal—not yet done—is the big kahuna in all of this.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The media mogul has worn roomy white cargo pants multiple times during the past year, most recently while filming an episode of The Oprah Podcast with comedian Leanne Morgan.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her father, billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone, purchased Paramount Pictures in 1993, and Redstone.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The lawyers of President Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch have agreed to pause an effort to force the 94-year-old media magnate to testify before a federal court in the president’s defamation case against the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
    Sarah Whitmire, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him — even a media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, with outlets that have been friendly to him in the past.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to courses in communication studies, students are schooled in the evolving business models of the creative industries, and dive into allyship and advocacy through sound studies and the school’s eminence in audiology.
    Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Due to the number and size of the monuments damaged, police believe multiple suspects are responsible.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Soon after Trump's executive order, the National Marine Fisheries Service sent a letter to fishing permit holders giving them the green light to fish commercially in the monument's boundaries, Earthjustice's lawsuit says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2025

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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