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
  • Back then, white scholars saw history through the eyes of society’s nabobs, kings and presidents.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Nattering nabobs of non-mainstream media might call it assault by beverage.
    Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2024
Noun
  • When Bezos acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, its value to the tech baron was largely reputational.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025
  • While the Rubiales trial took 18 months to be investigated and tried, the regional barons who have long dominated the federation successfully headed off the government’s talk of electoral reform.
    Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • All the while, the heroic couple was dogged by not just a team of lovebird assassins, but an inscrutable bunch of White House bigwigs.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Meta was briefly the bigwig in the AR/VR space 10 years ago when Meta (then Facebook) bought the VR company Oculus.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 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
  • In September 1997, NoDa real estate mogul Paul McBroom and partner George Gray reopened it as a live performance venue following renovations with 300 seats, according to Observer archives.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The travels and travails of politicized sisterhood Oprah Winfrey’s and Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance together at the Academy Awards, to introduce a tribute to the late music arranger/producer and Hollywood mogul Quincy Jones, was the strangest way to begin Women’s History Month.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • FedEx is suing Donald Trump-supporting pillow magnate Mike Lindell for nearly $9 million in unpaid delivery fees.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The project soon attached Ed Harris to play James, a celebrated actor but failed property magnate.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 3 Mar. 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
  • This Midcentury Hollywood motel may soon become a historic monument — a first in Los Angeles.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
  • At some point, the batteries aboard each 47-year-old spacecraft will finally die, rendering the scientific probes into interstellar monuments to themselves.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025

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

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