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

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

At its best and highest it is powerless—nothing better than, in the language of Carlyle, ‘Thrice refined pabulum of transcendental moonshine.’

From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)