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
  • The tender for its initial roster of teams had attracted a directory of the steel, cement and petrochemical barons who dominate the country’s economy: Tata Steel, JSW and Sanjiv Goenka among them.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the same coal barons who celebrated Trump’s victory in 2016 soon went bankrupt.
    Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Metro Sports Committee members even made a point to hand-deliver the city’s bid, individually, to each NCAA bigwig.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The group represents some of the biggest companies in finance, real estate and management, with an executive committee that includes Wall Street bigwigs like Jamie Dimon, Blair Effron, Jane Fraser, Henry Kravis, Larry Fink and David Solomon.
    Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Feb. 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
  • The woman sued Combs in the Southern District of New York under the name Jane Doe in October 2024, accusing the mogul of assaulting her at a party in 1995.
    Liam Quinn, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • New opportunities may present themselves that allow you to mentor peers toward becoming successful moguls.
    ESSENCE Lifestyle, Essence, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • DeGeneres flipped another Montecito property—a five-bedroom, 10-bathroom compound—in February of last year to mining magnate Robert Friedland for $32 million.
    India Roby and Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The maid at Bizarre Bazaar magnate Zachary Beck’s estate?
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • At Davos Worldwide, his eminence Shyalpa Rinpoche and other global leaders outlined the Four Pillars for Lasting Peace: 1.
    Dr. Adil Dalal, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Still, Valéry’s eminence as a modernist is indisputable.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The order includes provisions seeking to reinstate monuments, memorials and statues that were removed or altered since January 2020.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The Trump administration is leaving no stone unturned in its push to erase the legacy of 2020's racial reckoning, including by restoring monuments to Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery.
    Russell Contreras, Axios, 30 Mar. 2025

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.

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