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Ferreira dispensed with the usual pablum, about not focusing on results, taking it one day at a time, enjoying the journey and what have you.
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Sean Gregory, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Sean Gregory, Time, 18 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pablum. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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