pablum

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Recent Examples of pablum 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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for pablum
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candy
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  • And while there’s no candy in outer space (though there is sugar), these colorful images are a treat in and of themselves.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2026
  • But what happens when the season shifts, when the cloying good cheer of—groan—the holiday season comes with its candy stripes and jingle bells and partridges in pear trees?
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
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