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Recent Examples of pablum
Newscasters and helicopter reporters offered the same pablum.
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
In recent decades, though, Earth Day has felt a bit more nebulous—and susceptible to cliché, pablum, window dressing, and corporate greenwashing.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson's long speech (complete with his own personal narrative and historical anecdotes) had virtually nothing to do with the matter at hand and risked losing people who might have tuned in for something other than the usual boring congressional pablum.
—Scott Jennings, CNN, 10 June 2022
His social media posts are the typical politician pablum, almost certainly written by comms staffers deliberately trying to sound calm and professional — with none of Trump's entertaining derangement or even the wacky meme humor of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Twitter account.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
In recent decades, though, Earth Day has felt a bit more nebulous—and susceptible to cliché, pablum, window dressing, and corporate greenwashing.
—Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
Committee chairman Bennie Thompson's long speech (complete with his own personal narrative and historical anecdotes) had virtually nothing to do with the matter at hand and risked losing people who might have tuned in for something other than the usual boring congressional pablum.
—Scott Jennings, CNN, 10 June 2022
His social media posts are the typical politician pablum, almost certainly written by comms staffers deliberately trying to sound calm and professional — with none of Trump's entertaining derangement or even the wacky meme humor of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Twitter account.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 28 Jan. 2022
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pablum. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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