as in feed
material provided to sustain or nourish
The farmer used grain as fodder for his livestock.
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Recent Examples of fodder
Families are complicated, which gives TV writers plenty of fodder to draw from.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
For now, however, the Met show is more than suitable, providing casual fans and scholars alike with fodder for future study.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Of course, all of this will be used as fodder for anti-DEI discourse, since it’s been set up to fail anyway, and assassinate the character and credibility of critical voices who have been pitted against each other in many ways in the startup and VC world.
—Allyson Kapin, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Jackson, often talk-show fodder for his playoff struggles, played at an MVP level.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
For now, however, the Met show is more than suitable, providing casual fans and scholars alike with fodder for future study.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Of course, all of this will be used as fodder for anti-DEI discourse, since it’s been set up to fail anyway, and assassinate the character and credibility of critical voices who have been pitted against each other in many ways in the startup and VC world.
—Allyson Kapin, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Jackson, often talk-show fodder for his playoff struggles, played at an MVP level.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for fodder
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fodder
Noun
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Scapin’s mortadella uses the meat of local, free-range pigs, some of which feed on acorns and forest berries.—
Marcia DeSanctis,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2025
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Living their lives, scrolling their feed, reading your content and starting to like you.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The market features more than 70 art and food vendors and live music.—
Jenny Adams,
AFAR Media,
11 Feb. 2025
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To me, this meant striving to represent food from as many regions and ethnic communities as possible.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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All of this is news to Tereza, who works in an alligator meat processing facility.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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The portions are enormous, the prices reasonable, the flavors straightforward: salt, fat, acid, meat.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Fodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fodder. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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