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 sort of pabulum is the norm, alas, not the exception.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2015

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

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2014

The street, the school, the young people’s club, the magazine, the popular novel, furnish their mental pabulum.

From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George