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panjandrums

noun

variants also panjandra
plural of panjandrum
as in bigwigs

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  1. bigwigs
  2. nabobs
  3. barons
  4. magnates
  5. moguls
  6. eminences
  7. dignitaries
  8. big shots
Noun
  • The idea, according to officials, would bring $500 million to the city’s coffers annually, paid primarily by bigwigs who get to enjoy city life but don’t pay city income taxes.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Stevens boasts the support of a growing list of establishment bigwigs—including Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, and the state’s outgoing senator, Gary Peters—who clearly view her as more electable.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of bigwigs
Noun
  • Netflix execs no doubt long ago figured out how to tune out the nattering nabobs of negativism, understanding that such scrutiny — from both consumers and the press — is the unavoidable by-product of success.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026
  • 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.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of nabobs
Noun
  • Born in 1901, Cartland was a fixture of British high society, rubbing shoulders with press barons, politicians, the aristocracy and the Royal Family, as step-grandmother to Princess Diana.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Baronet is a hereditary title and not part of the peerage, ranking below barons but above most knights, per Britannica.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of barons
Noun
  • The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
    — Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Newspapers fell into the hands of magnates who advanced their own interests.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of magnates
Noun
  • The list highlights the region’s growing pull for tech founders, hedge fund titans and real estate moguls.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The biggest news to come out of two film festivals this week stemmed from documentaries about tech moguls gone bad.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of moguls
Noun
  • These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
  • It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Definition of eminences
Noun
  • One of them hit a railway line shortly after a train carrying European dignitaries had passed through.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, a Russian drone struck a passenger train carrying foreign dignitaries on a visit to Ukraine, including senior European officials and former CIA Director David Petraeus, forcing them to evacuate near the Polish border.
    — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of dignitaries
Noun
  • The big deals have been made, the big shots have come and gone.
    — David Szondy July 23, New Atlas, 23 July 2026
  • Yet the mental horizons of Maucci and his associates were wider and more mobile than those of the big shots, small-time lawyers, and clerics who’d remained to vegetate in their old Lunigiana.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 July 2026
Definition of big shots
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“Panjandrums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrums. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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