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

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

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

"Open this worthy knight where you will, you will be pretty sure to find some intellectual pabulum."

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy