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material provided to sustain or nourish
The farmer used grain as fodder for his livestock.
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Recent Examples of fodder
As a result, the proceedings, which traditionally take place in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, are perfect fodder for authors and filmmakers.
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Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Date, moderators, channel, more Internet reacts to Vance's comments, raises issues on the economy
Vance's remarks on car seats are the latest incident of his previous words being resurfaced for political fodder.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Check out all of her impersonations so far on Halsey’s Instagram and look out for her album release on Oct. 25, just in time for those of us looking for last-minute costume fodder.
—Quispe López, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
Set on a quiet dead-end block, the building would afford exciting opportunities for street-level activations, with a rear alley for additional egress and column-free interiors primed for flexible layouts—all gritty fodder for Zuspan’s savvy reuse.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024
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Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
Date, moderators, channel, more Internet reacts to Vance's comments, raises issues on the economy
Vance's remarks on car seats are the latest incident of his previous words being resurfaced for political fodder.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Check out all of her impersonations so far on Halsey’s Instagram and look out for her album release on Oct. 25, just in time for those of us looking for last-minute costume fodder.
—Quispe López, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
Set on a quiet dead-end block, the building would afford exciting opportunities for street-level activations, with a rear alley for additional egress and column-free interiors primed for flexible layouts—all gritty fodder for Zuspan’s savvy reuse.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fodder
Noun
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How much land was wasted growing their millions of pounds of feed?Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Instead of anxiously refreshing your feed, set a bedtime and stick to it.Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
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So can food plots, especially those planted with timely species.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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Instead of trying the food retrieval that had been trained on, the immigrants used the resident solution on their first try.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Cathy: The leading motivation was access to sustainable meat.Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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Using fingers, distribute paste under skin over breast, thigh, and drumstick meat.Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Fodder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fodder. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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