panhandle
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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
Brenen Thompson is from Spearman, Texas, at the top of the panhandle, where the gusts are constant and the only tourist attraction is a collection of old windmills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
That afternoon, Cade Hernandez and I traversed the desolate panhandle of Texas and crossed over the line into Oklahoma.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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Another man said his friend, who regularly panhandles on a busy street, has been missing since the takeover began.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2025
The elevated-risk area stretches all the way from Arizona’s border with California and Nevada into the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, the service said late Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
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 Sewell Ford
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
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“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,” she said in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 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
Since June 2024, almost 220 local measures have passed that restrict or ban acts like sleeping, sitting or panhandling in public in cities that include Phoenix; Gainesville, Florida, and Reno, Nevada.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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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