fodder
Example Sentences
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The novel partnership between students and police to break open a decades-old murder case, with a love triangle at its center, was irresistible fodder for the media’s true-crime boom.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Foreman also defended his right to use the raid footage as fodder for his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Remember, the Revolutionary Guard was founded to provide cannon fodder during the Iraq-Iran War.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
From the dark, heavy look of the sky, visible through the roof of the fodder house, it would be an all-day rain.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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