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The Rip, from the director Joe Carnahan, is a cop drama where macho guys (and gals) tote carbine rifles and grunt law-enforcement lingo—the kind of crime-genre pablum that commonly gets thrown onto Netflix in mid-January.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Their happiness is suspect because it’s fed by pablum.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
That online comment was characteristic of the usual sanctimonious pablum, the kind of casual moral high ground afforded only to a native English speaker or to someone willfully ignorant of the daily indignities non-native speakers face.
—Sheon Han, Wired News, 27 Oct. 2025
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
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Their happiness is suspect because it’s fed by pablum.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
That online comment was characteristic of the usual sanctimonious pablum, the kind of casual moral high ground afforded only to a native English speaker or to someone willfully ignorant of the daily indignities non-native speakers face.
—Sheon Han, Wired News, 27 Oct. 2025
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
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pablum. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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