pabulum

Example Sentences

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Hidden Valley Renaissance is the ranch dressing of Italian Revival architecture — mostly pabulum, sort of has taste, taken for granted and consumed accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022

A dozen years later, Epstein describes himself as “allergic” to business school slang, to the kind of pabulum espoused in leadership books.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016

Sadly, a head-scratching lack of extras, only including a paltry six-minutes worth of promotional pabulum, relegates the great effort to a rental or on-demand viewing.

From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2016

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

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014

I had also written for the "Westminster," and, in short, was furnishing about all of the monthlies and two of the quarterlies with American pabulum; and yet the public were not satisfied.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various