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 Calvin Klein, the panjandrum of pants, sold his beach house there for $84.4m. The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021 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
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • The Gold Coast once held the highest concentrations of American wealth, and today, the area remains an upscale part of Long Island, with many of those centuries-old homes of Gilded Age nabobs still intact.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Press barons can dial back the criticism of Trump and dial up the praise.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The series also stars Timothy Dalton as an evil land baron and Jerome Flynn as his henchman, along with Darren Mann, Brian Geraghty, Aminah Nieves, Michelle Randolph, Sebastian Roché.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Saturday before the election, Evans announced he was scheduled to speak at a Turning Point Action ballot chasing event with MAGA bigwig Charlie Kirk.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • But crypto bigwigs are betting that money and passion can overcome all this.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • The big kahuna, Photoshop itself, costs a minimum of $9.99 per month, but that subscription also includes Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and 20GB of cloud storage.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 10 May 2024
Noun
  • The lifestyle guru has mastered the art of taking a great thirst trap Comments Martha Stewart is a media mogul, renowned author and mega boss in every aspect.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The concert, produced by music moguls and ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Shelli and Irving Azoff in collaboration with Live Nation and the LA Clippers, boasts a lineup of heavyweights including Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Nicks, Katy Perry, and Joni Mitchell.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That could be a smart bet for Cohen, with Donald Trump’s election spurring business magnates and world leaders to flock to Palm Beach for its proximity to the new president’s Winter White House at Mar-a-Lago.
    Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Alongside billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, the tech magnates appeared in countless live shots of the transfer of power.
    Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Still, Valéry’s eminence as a modernist is indisputable.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But Mufasa doesn’t offer the iconic character a story worthy of his eminence.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • About 40 of the 80-plus plaques — installed beginning in 2015 — in this monument to civic pride and music history have been forcefully removed from the ground.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Clearly shaken by the confrontation, Van Buren's son, Harry (Joe Alwyn), rushes into László's moonlit concrete monument to Harrison's late mother, only to find that his father has vanished without a trace.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.

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