fodder

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Recent Examples of fodder Last fall, Broussard suddenly became fodder in the presidential campaign when Donald Trump claimed Bailey’s killing was an example of then-Vice President Kamala Harris being soft on crime during her time as San Francisco district attorney in the mid 2000s. Thomas Peele, Mercury News, 9 June 2025 Should protected information shared in confidence, in the setting of illness, with a high-stakes power differential, be fodder for writing—no matter how compelling? Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025 All are fodder for her intricate textile works, a parallel practice to her floral-design studio. Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025 There also exist aspects of their past which would become political fodder in the hands of any opponent’s negative campaign. Judith Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fodder
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Noun
  • These cognitive SOCs can ingest vast, diverse data streams, network logs, threat intel feeds, user activity and more to make connections that human analysts might miss.
    Ronen Cojocaru, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Even if Fox was willing to license a feed of Fox without Fox News, or Paramount was willing to license CBS without Nickelodeon or MTV, the current value of retransmission fees for those broadcast networks continues to rise.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • While 92 million jobs may be lost due to AI, the same report indicates that 170 million new jobs will be created because of AI, with the jobs expected to see the most growth including farmworkers, delivery drivers, construction workers, salespeople and food processing workers.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • The parliamentarian determined that a provision to bar immigrants who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents from receiving food assistance benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, should also be removed.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The partners opened the restaurant in 2006 in the Sunset Harbor neighborhood, serving pasta, pizza, grilled meats and seafood.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
  • Some believe that early celebrants simply worked with easily accessible and in-season ingredients that happened to be red: watermelon, strawberries, beans and fried or smoked meats.
    Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025

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“Fodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fodder. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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