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
  • Each part of the plan requires Zsa-zsa and now Liesl to persuade a number of industrial barons and powerful bankers to help finance the project.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
  • Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and other tech barons like to prophesy a future in which AI cures cancer and makes everyone prosperous.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The proposition that reporters unintentionally missed the full story of Biden’s decline is much more credible, and has been advanced not only by Thompson and Tapper but by numerous journalistic bigwigs, both now and in the immediate aftermath of the debate.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • Upset about being undercut, the Texas bigwig resolves to put Georgie out of business.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2025
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
  • But the comparisons to our real tech moguls aren’t one-to-one.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 May 2025
  • Scroll down for a look at all the homes the 20-something mogul currently maintains.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • This group includes finance mogul Stephen Smith, car dealership billionaire Norman Braman, industrial business magnate Harsh Goenka, homebuilder Patrick Neal and five anonymous respondents.
    Phoebe Liu, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Lauder, a billionaire, philanthropist and son of the makeup magnate Estée Lauder, founded the initiative in 2022 as a way to increase access to Jewish day schools in America.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The shell of the fetish and the ruins of spectacle remain visible and intact as negative monuments.
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • The cultural monuments and heritage sites are less accessible.
    Keyaira Boone, Essence, 30 May 2025

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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