pablum

noun

pab·​lum ˈpa-bləm How to pronounce pablum (audio)

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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 In other cases, domain-name hustlers have purchased the URLs of media properties that have fallen on hard times and resurrected them as AI content mills, sometimes replacing their previously sound journalism with robotic pablum. Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 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 His view of the latest wave of tech is not all that different from the pablum many of us hear daily. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pablum

Word History

Etymology

from Pablum, a trademark for an infant cereal

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pablum was in 1932

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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pablum. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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