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Recent Examples of pablum
As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spark in an ocean of pablum.
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ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Later in the day, the original pablum from the White House was approved by the Security Council when Britain and France withheld their vetoes by abstaining while China and Russia voted in favor.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
Her positive pablum came too late to stop critics from casting her as a modern-day Nero, the emperor who supposedly fiddled away as Rome burned.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The resulting excess of unchecked pablum and misinformation depressed not only outside observers but also many of the more seasoned members of the Republican foreign policy community who took the subject seriously.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2013
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ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Later in the day, the original pablum from the White House was approved by the Security Council when Britain and France withheld their vetoes by abstaining while China and Russia voted in favor.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 25 Feb. 2025
Her positive pablum came too late to stop critics from casting her as a modern-day Nero, the emperor who supposedly fiddled away as Rome burned.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
The resulting excess of unchecked pablum and misinformation depressed not only outside observers but also many of the more seasoned members of the Republican foreign policy community who took the subject seriously.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pablum
candy
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The new candy in the brand's iconic shape features white chocolate creme blended with crunchy cookie pieces wrapped in seasonal foils.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
8 Nov. 2025
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Play Haus embraces child-like maximalism with candy-bright color palettes, cartoonish ceramics, paper chains, and a touch of chaos.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pablum. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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