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My understanding of the Three Represents as an important pivot in the ruling party’s ideology had been completely squeezed out of the document and replaced with pablum.
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Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2020
These are more like cultural atmospheres, performed mainly online, with names and looks and hashtags, an easy visual pablum.
—Mireille Silcoff, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Newscasters and helicopter reporters offered the same pablum.
—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
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Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2020
These are more like cultural atmospheres, performed mainly online, with names and looks and hashtags, an easy visual pablum.
—Mireille Silcoff, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
Newscasters and helicopter reporters offered the same pablum.
—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
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“Pablum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pablum. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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