pabulum

Example Sentences

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While it sogs relatively quickly, the soft pabulum that remains is still tasty, and sloughs off just enough of that cinnamon and sugar to make a satisfying bowl of cereal milk.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2019

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

This view of biogeographic history was pure chaos, the antithesis of unification. And where did this pabulum come from?

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014

Their account, more candid and offbeat than the typical political pabulum, represents an attempt, Abby said, to “give kids our age an inside perspective into life on the campaign trail.”

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2011

The doors and windows should be open; so that fresh air, that pabulum vitæ, without which health cannot be sustained, may be freely admitted.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin