pabulum

Example Sentences

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Typically after games, a media horde descends on their locker with the team’s public relations brass in tow, and athletes respond with guarded pabulum.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2024

Well, at least a 10-minute look when one cuts out all of the promotional pabulum for the cartoon.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2018

It’s actually a pretty easy issue to defuse: just churn out some pabulum about how running for president is difficult and you’re thinking about the future of the country and blah blah blah.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2015

This sort of pabulum is the norm, alas, not the exception.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2015

The pabulum vitæ of our earth is then to some slight extent effective in arresting transmitted sunlight, and oxygen must be classed as a solar element.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)