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pablum



pab·lum [ ˈpa-bləm]



pablum   
noun
[ˈpa-bləm]

Definition of pablum

: pabulum sense 3



Recent Examples on the Web


//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. 2012


First Known Use of pablum

1932, in the meaning defined above



History and Etymology for pablum

from Pablum, a trademark for an infant cereal



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