pablum
noun
pab·lum
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In making public statements, Republican Presidents fell back on the usual pablum about the United States being a country of immigrants that found strength in its diversity and applied its ideals to all, regardless of racial or religious background. — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump and Lax Gun Laws Are Tearing America Apart," 7 Aug. 2019 My impression is that too much caution and too much carelessness there served us this big bowl of pablum. — Brian T. Allen, National Review, "The American Pavilion in the Venice Biennale: Safe and Sorry," 10 Aug. 2019 That’s typical cliché first-day pablum, but there are genuinely hopeful indications that these 49ers might be equipped to emerge from five seasons of stumbling through the non-playoffs wilderness. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "49ers are brimming with confidence and can smell the opportunity," 26 July 2019 Never have commissioners picked a worse time to dally, muttering pablum and doing their best impression of an uncaring, bloated government. — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Hurricane Irma: Lake County Commission dawdles while victims suffer," 20 Sep. 2017 What can be gleaned from some 1,000 collective pages of senatorial pablum and prose? — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, "We Read Them So You Don’t Have To: New Books by Senators Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren and Ben Sasse," 2 June 2017 Not one-size-fits-all pop culture pablum but deep and meaningful ways to think about your questions using visual arts, philosophy, literature, and social sciences. — Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, "The School Of Life," 7 Feb. 2012These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pablum.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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