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
  • Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
    Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The Yankees’ twenty-seven World Series titles long ago made the team barons of baseball certitude.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The bigwig’s beliefs and way of life present a stark contrast to those of his scrimping and saving father, who is heavily dependent on the kindness of family, friends and strangers.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Politicians -- both former and current -- and party bigwigs, with their handlers in tow, sought to defend their candidate’s positions and talk up their prospects before what is likely to be the last debate before Election Day.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 2 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
  • Until next time, Alex & Zoya Inside Alex Cooper’s $125 Million Deal To Grow Her Multimedia Empire Media lister Alex Cooper has become a media mogul.
    Alexandra York, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Cheryl’s bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts attended the service, as did TV host James Corden and music mogul Simon Cowell.
    Hannah Peart, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The criminal indictment follows the meteoric rise of Adani as a magnate on the global stage.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
  • McMahon is a professional wrestling magnate who ran two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut.
    Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But a lot of young executives also are casting weary glances at the aging eminences who’ve been occupying Hollywood’s C-suites seemingly forever.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Despite being unsure of his faith, the poor man has been saddled by the just-deceased pope with the responsibility of managing the conclave of red-robed eminences who’ll vote on a successor.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • At the height of Maya civilization, people in this region built temples, roads, pyramids and other monuments.
    Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
    Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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