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At the time, his comments were widely dismissed in both U.S. and European policy circles as either populist pablum or unnecessarily provocative.—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025 When any Democratic politician, including Gov. JB Pritzker, dares to stand up to extreme Republican rhetoric with any language beyond polite pablum and pious platitudes, pundits tell Democrats to lower the volume, cut the contempt and be nice.—Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025 The largely receptive crowd often cheered at the scattershot injection of issues from the price of eggs to transgender rights, a microcosm of an era when even the pablum of a graduation speech cannot escape the politics of the moment.—Erica L. Green, New York Times, 2 May 2025 As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spark in an ocean of pablum.—ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pablum
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