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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

A similar warning was issued for parts of the Florida panhandle.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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

By and by Rosellini left academia, departed Seattle, and drifted north up the coast through British Columbia and the Alaska panhandle.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Williams spends most nights sleeping on park benches in Silver Spring, where he said he panhandles for money, asking strangers whether they can spare 50 cents for bus fare for a veteran.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 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

Distribution.—Western and southern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona and northern New Mexico, east to the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and to southwestern Kansas.

From Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions by J. Knox Jones

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

She reminded people that they needed to pay, let them sometimes pay their rent in bits and pieces, accepting Styrofoam cups of panhandled change a week at a time.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2015

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,” she said in January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 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

When I see people panhandling, I don’t give them spare change, or even a dollar; I give them a five or a ten or a twenty — and a kind word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024

“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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