Examples of pablum in a Sentence
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These are more like cultural atmospheres, performed mainly online, with names and looks and hashtags, an easy visual pablum.
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Mireille Silcoff, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Newscasters and helicopter reporters offered the same pablum.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
In recent decades, though, Earth Day has felt a bit more nebulous—and susceptible to cliché, pablum, window dressing, and corporate greenwashing.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson's long speech (complete with his own personal narrative and historical anecdotes) had virtually nothing to do with the matter at hand and risked losing people who might have tuned in for something other than the usual boring congressional pablum.
—Scott Jennings, CNN, 10 June 2022
His social media posts are the typical politician pablum, almost certainly written by comms staffers deliberately trying to sound calm and professional — with none of Trump's entertaining derangement or even the wacky meme humor of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Twitter account.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
Asked about facing Williams, Kelly spouted his usual pablum about making corrections before practice this week.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
Beyond the creepiness, this pablum presumes reversibility.
—Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
And spare me the pablum about Twitter being some kind of public square.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
Mireille Silcoff, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Newscasters and helicopter reporters offered the same pablum.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
In recent decades, though, Earth Day has felt a bit more nebulous—and susceptible to cliché, pablum, window dressing, and corporate greenwashing.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson's long speech (complete with his own personal narrative and historical anecdotes) had virtually nothing to do with the matter at hand and risked losing people who might have tuned in for something other than the usual boring congressional pablum.
—Scott Jennings, CNN, 10 June 2022
His social media posts are the typical politician pablum, almost certainly written by comms staffers deliberately trying to sound calm and professional — with none of Trump's entertaining derangement or even the wacky meme humor of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Twitter account.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
Asked about facing Williams, Kelly spouted his usual pablum about making corrections before practice this week.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
Beyond the creepiness, this pablum presumes reversibility.
—Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
And spare me the pablum about Twitter being some kind of public square.
—Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
from Pablum, a trademark for an infant cereal
First Known Use
1932, in the meaning defined above
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pablum. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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