fodder
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- noun
- /ˈfɑːdər/
- Jargon
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material
- Often the world's injustices provide the best fodder for me to to have something great to, to write about, right?
- provide fodder
- give fodder
- become fodder
Examples
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But until you run straight into a wall or off a bridge, it's all just kind of fodder until you hit that wall.
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If he does that, he'll have plenty of fodder to win the debates, hands down.
Blog text (7) -
But yeah, you have, you have fodder, you know, like all of pain in life is fodder for art, right?
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And I will think about some other interesting pictures that could be good fodder for people to work with for the future.
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This idea that we're only thinking about you and not our own lives becomes, you know, fodder for comedy.
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If nothing else, this outbreak has given us much research fodder over the coming years.
Blog text (3) -
So these are fascinating questions that make great fodder for science fiction stories.
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There have been great thinkers who have given us considerable fodder for debate and experimentation.
Academic text (2006) -
Such seminal ideas provided intellectual fodder for numerous empirical applications, many of which Vance himself probably would never have anticipated.
Academic text (1999) -
The latest research report provides valuable fodder for discussions on climate change and its impact.
Synonyms
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Information or ideas that you use to create something
People or ideas others use as unimportant material
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fodder first meant animal 'food', so a helpful way to remember its modern use is to think of data as 'food' for machines. That is why large amounts of text or images used to train computers are called fodder.