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material provided to sustain or nourish
The farmer used grain as fodder for his livestock.
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Recent Examples of fodder
Red clover — Another non-native, but useful as a cover crop and fodder for livestock.
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Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2026
Two decades on, the #MeToo movement is still fresh fodder for cultural fare, even if its founding principles have fully fallen by the wayside.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2026
The gun-control effort has become campaign fodder for both Paxton and Hunt, each of whom is jockeying to be in the top two on primary day.
—Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2026
Of course, their relationship of nearly three years, from 1994 to 1997, offered plenty of fodder for the public to obsess over.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026
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Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2026
Two decades on, the #MeToo movement is still fresh fodder for cultural fare, even if its founding principles have fully fallen by the wayside.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2026
The gun-control effort has become campaign fodder for both Paxton and Hunt, each of whom is jockeying to be in the top two on primary day.
—Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2026
Of course, their relationship of nearly three years, from 1994 to 1997, offered plenty of fodder for the public to obsess over.
—Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fodder
Noun
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Cesar Garcia said the chief pulled up a live feed on an iPad from two cameras on the mountain, which showed no smoke or fire.—
Alene Tchekmedyian,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Now after four years of ongoing horrors in Ukraine, and more than two years of watching slaughter and suffering in Gaza, the latest war filling our feeds is just another numbing form of content, a digital arena in which competing forces try to assert conflicting viewpoints.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Makeshift trenches with food supplies and utensils belonging to the miners were also dismantled, with clothing items left behind after the miners fled the site in Randfontein, about 25 miles west of Johannesburg.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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The full kit includes all the supplies kids need to grow their mini garden environment, including chia seeds, colored sand, and stickers.—
Chaunie Brusie,
Parents,
13 Mar. 2026
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Carry a windshield scraper, jumper cables, a small shovel, flashlight, cell phone, blanket and additional warm clothing, drinking water, and high-calorie non-perishable food.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2026
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Digital marketing Careers in digital marketing and agricultural communications also are gaining traction, with consumers increasingly being interested in where their food comes from.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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The Democratic senator, who voted for the USMCA trade pact in 2019, is calling for better labor standards, enforcement provisions, wage protections, and updates to origin requirements that prevent China from accessing the North American market through Mexico.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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During the debate, some council members argued the city must ensure stronger oversight of organizations receiving millions of dollars in public funding, while others cautioned against provisions that could abruptly cut off services for tenants in the middle of eviction cases.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
11 Mar. 2026
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The campus has a meat processing and food industry building that allows students and researchers to study the meat processing industry.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Fodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fodder. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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