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pabulum

[pab-yuh-luhm] / ˈpæb jə ləm /


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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

But their observations about love are such pabulum that a passer-by might mistake what their glimpsing for the opener of a "Saturday Night Live" short film parody.

From Salon ● May 15, 2022

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

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

Barry did not live, like Titian, in the taste of colours; they were not a pabulum to his sense; he did not hold green, blue, red, and yellow as the precious darlings of his eye.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt


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