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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

Bentley: The first thing that comes to mind is the writing trip we took up to the Idaho panhandle — where the story was set and where the book was written.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 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

“This panhandle feels like a shortcut through an entire state,” she says to Grandpa Ed.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

From Slate Sep. 1, 2025

Weather forecasters were also watching the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles for the possibility of more severe thunderstorms.

From New York Times Jun. 21, 2023

The Weather Service has declared “extremely critical” fire weather in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and over large portions of western Kansas.

From Seattle Times Dec. 14, 2021

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

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

From The Guardian Mar. 8, 2020

To some, it’s where local homeless people panhandled harmlessly.

From Seattle Times Sep. 2, 2019

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

The opening scene, for instance, sees Mike panhandling on a busy street and completely being ignored by passersby.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 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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