How to Use pablum in a Sentence

pablum

noun

• And spare me the pablum about Twitter being some kind of public square.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 25 Apr. 2022
• And to think that lots of people once considered Saget to be the worst kind of pablum personified, the blandest of the bland.
  — Erik Hedegaard, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2022
• The goal of this GOP outreach, it must be stressed, is not to turn the Biden campaign into pablum by mouthing centrist bromides.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 8 June 2020
• There are glimmers of useful thinking in the board’s decision, like Skittles in a bowl of pablum.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2021
• Anyone with something to say that’s more than pablum inevitably draws a bit of blood; the truth, in particular, hurts.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• My impression is that too much caution and too much carelessness there served us this big bowl of pablum.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• What can be gleaned from some 1,000 collective pages of senatorial pablum and prose?
  — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Ethical corners had been cut so that some viral pablum could be broadcasted.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2021
• Utopian Imagination, the new show at the Ford Foundation Gallery, is cheap science fiction melded with greeting-card pablum.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Nov. 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, 26 July 2019
• The deranged corporate messaging from the company itself, which slowly devolved from standard pablum to the demented ravings of a death cult.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Mar. 2020
• Asked about facing Williams, Kelly spouted his usual pablum about making corrections before practice this week.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
• 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, 7 Feb. 2012
• Beyond the creepiness, this pablum presumes reversibility.
  — Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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, 20 Sep. 2017
• Verification technology was not built to penalize journalists for reporting the truth or content creators for taking risks but, by penalizing the publication of inoffensive pablum over interesting content, that is all too often the end result.
  — Alok Choudhary, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024