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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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

Chase is 60 years old and has panhandled with a plastic cup for years: He had never heard of Square.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2017

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

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

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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