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pan

[pan] / pæn /


VERB
look, search for over a wide area
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It is a bit like heating popcorn kernels in a pan.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Collectors pay up for rare, vintage products like waffle irons and garden gnomes; a Grateful Dead pan fetched $4,100 in an auction at the Lodge Museum in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Each year, the 70 family shareholders come to Tennessee for the Lodge Cast Iron pan company’s annual meeting; the extended family, every five years on the company’s dime.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

But the 2025-26 season did not pan out as anticipated.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

I imagined a mountain of eggs, each of them sizzling in a little pan, gone like Mallons’ currach.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

Earlier this week, Joyce Carol Oates panned Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation, and now acclaimed author and journalist Susan Orlean has entered the chat.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Warsh’s communication at the July press conference, after the central bank held rates steady at its two-day policy meeting, was widely panned by investors and economists.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

Disney has once again taken one of its biggest animated hits of recent years and turned it into a live-action remake - but the new take on 2016's Moana has been panned by most critics.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

In Poultney, Bhakta has become known for hosting barbecues and driving his vintage cars in Fourth of July parades while pushing an ambitious plan for redevelopment that never panned out.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Key to how Morgan Stanley sees things panning out is the non-consensus view of the investment bank’s economists who believe the Fed will stay on hold in 2026.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

But the situation remains volatile and the Europeans want clarity on how a fragile US deal with Iran is panning out before sending in their navies.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

But this is not how Isak envisaged his first year at Anfield panning out following his protracted £125m move from Newcastle United last September.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

As it stands, listening to these albums feels more like panning for gold and mostly seeing piles of sediment.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

I wondered why my father worked so hard panning for diamonds in the alluvial mines, diamonds that he would not be allowed to keep.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince




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