panjandrum

Examples of panjandrum in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web 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
  • The first looks at interesting facts about the cemetery, the second dives into notable people buried there, and the third highlights the prominent beer barons also buried at the cemetery. Take a look at the videos below.
    David Wysong, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Following the baron’s death, the museum closed its doors in 2007.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Our central characters fall neatly into easy tropes: insecure aging starlet, conniving sexpot, and misogynistic bigwig pig.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Brady presses Riley and Shaw to work more quickly, given that the mayor and various other bigwigs are demanding updates.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 3 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
  • Trump, a former TV host, real estate mogul and businessman, is attempting to become the first former president to be reelected since Grover Cleveland in 1892.
    Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But though the home’s master bedroom was ransacked, the assailants never took the hair mogul’s valuable watch on his wrist, piquing the interest of detectives, said then-Robbery Homicide Division Capt. Billy Hayes.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing to do battle one last time with Lee, disguised here as an eccentric real estate magnate.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Though the then-real estate magnate envisioned selling 50 limos, only a handful were ever manufactured.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 24 Oct. 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
  • They were used primarily as burial monuments or memorials and symbolized the journey to the afterlife, given that ships were considered vessels for transporting the dead into the next world.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The finale date, winner and more Not everyone's a winner: The story behind the Arizona monument to 'unelected' presidents Who is left on 'Dancing with the Stars'?
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Panjandrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panjandrum. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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