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panhandle

[pan-han-dl] / ˈpænˌhæn dl /


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The mockingbird, however, is easily spotted in his panhandle district.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Department of Homeland Security quietly bought an 825,000-square-foot warehouse in the state’s conservative western panhandle.

From Slate Apr. 27, 2026

In the age of artificial intelligence, it turns out that owning 5,700 acres of land in the Texas panhandle can outweigh having no revenue to speak of.

From Barron's Oct. 27, 2025

The couple had recently moved from the remote ranching town of Stinnett in the Texas panhandle, and the recruiter seemed to appreciate their Southern drawl.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

But as soon as they realized you weren’t trying to hustle them or panhandle money, they warmed right up.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Another man said his friend, who regularly panhandles on a busy street, has been missing since the takeover began.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2025

She panhandles in Tijuana to make a few pesos, not enough to help her impoverished family back home.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2019

For the fourth consecutive day, tornadoes strafed the middle of the country Thursday, this time concentrated in sparsely populated panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas.

From Fox News May 24, 2019

A tornado threat was stalking the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2019

First off, I has a run of old timers, that panhandles me out of all the loose coin I has in my clothes.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell

No one camped on the sidewalks or panhandled at the park.

From Seattle Times Jul. 29, 2022

“She’d panhandled on the street but she gave most of her money away.”

From The Guardian Mar. 8, 2020

She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2018

He panhandled for candy money around Georgetown University.

From Washington Post Jan. 13, 2016

The underground staff scoured the countryside for paper and other supplies and panhandled on the streets of Manila for money.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“When neighborhoods are plagued by issues such as aggressive panhandling, unruly street vending, public urination, abandoned vehicles, it gives the impression of an unsafe community,” Ms. Tisch said in January.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

Sprawled on a sidewalk near a freeway on-ramp, a man calling himself “Rabbit” was panhandling for money accompanied by his two beagle-pit bull mixes, Pooh Bear and Piglet.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2025

While camping, aggressive panhandling, and other actions are currently illegal in D.C.,

From Slate Sep. 1, 2025

In addition, there are rule changes on "panhandling, discrimination, consuming outside alcohol and vaping."

From Salon Jan. 15, 2025

“Umm...right, so the house went into foreclosure in 2009. That’s a year before he was spotted panhandling in the city.”

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone




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