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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.
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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.
—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
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
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Feeding their massive media empires, media barons like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer competed for readership by printing sensationalist stories, gossip, and exaggerated claims.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
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Oil baron and music mogul Len Blavatnik’s family foundation has made a $25 million donation to the USC School of Cinematic Arts to create a virtual production center, the university said this week.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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The China tariff deal—not yet done—is the big kahuna in all of this.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
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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
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In May, multi-hyphenate mogul Rihanna stepped out with one of the toys clipped to her Louis Vuitton bag, and rumblings about the little monster grew into a cacophony.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Aug. 2025
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Guy Pearce, who is coming off his recent Oscar nomination, is circling a starring role as media mogul Rupert Murdoch.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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White, now a solo artist, once owned a furniture business, while Trump, a real estate magnate, has long been known to favor a flashy, Rococo aesthetic.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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His sweeping, colorful narrative is populated by naive government scientists, relentless railroad magnates seeking monopoly profits, and earnest municipal reformers advancing the public interest.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Crown Hill Cemetery Walking Tours With 25 miles of roads and more than 225,000 tombstones and monuments, this is an unconventional outdoor museum.—
Samanta Habashy,
IndyStar,
21 Aug. 2025
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Soldiers have been largely stationed in downtown areas, such as monuments on the National Mall and transit stations.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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