pap

noun

Definition of papnext
as in diet

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  1. diet
  2. fodder
  3. nourishment
  4. sustenance
  5. feed
  6. silage
  7. meal
  8. nutriment
Noun
  • Advertisement The fantasy that masculinity can be recovered through diet is as old as the United States.
    — Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026
  • His theory was that modern diets damage the gut and undermine the various systems connected to it.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of diet
Noun
  • Among other things, Gray quipped about how his wife and kids really provide no fodder for stories.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
  • There’s eventually a backlash to the backlash, a revision-to-reappreciation arc, and a resurrection as nostalgia-bait reboot fodder.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of fodder
Noun
  • Born in Mexico to a left-wing Catalan family, Adela’s spiritual and intellectual formation came from her grandparents, while her emotional nourishment was the realm of the housekeeper/nanny Paula (Teresita Sánchez).
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Horses didn’t survive 56 million years by adding more tasks to their days or overworking to get nourishment, protection, or social connections.
    — Nell Derick Debevoise Dewey, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of nourishment
Noun
  • But between navigating selective palates, food allergies, social media-worthy lunchbox inspiration, food noise, and the inevitable comparisons with classmates, striking a balance between sustenance and satisfaction can quickly become overwhelming.
    — Sierra Leone Starks, Parents, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Ponder will be charged with first-degree and second-degree child cruelty, and first-degree child cruelty - deprivation of necessary sustenance.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of sustenance
Noun
  • The Vances often post photos of their children, but Usha’s parents and sister don’t appear in her social media feeds.
    — Kate Andersen Brower, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Body landmarks replace video Rather than sending a raw camera feed for translation, the system uses Google’s MediaPipe Holistic model to identify pose landmarks on the signer.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of feed
Noun
  • However, in New England, silage corn harvest can extend to late October due to labor constraints, unfavorable soil conditions, and weather variability, which can substantially narrow the window for early cover crop establishment using these conventional drill-seeding methods.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • Nieusma says the best natural option for getting rid of white clover is to smother it with a silage tarp or pond liner.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 June 2026
Definition of silage
Noun
  • Current reports from the ship confirm continuous access to clean water, functional AC, and healthy meal options.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • My attempts to get each kind of meat, plus the hash browns and eggs, onto my fork weren’t successful, but the meal would have been great even if it was served to me blended up in a brunch smoothie.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of meal
Noun
  • When flights resumed, the grass, without the nutriment it was used to getting from the insects’ secretions, began to decay.
    — Fabio Morábito, New Yorker, 24 July 2025
  • By linking multiple trees, each fungus diversifies its source of nutriment and hedges against the demise of a single tree or species.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
Definition of nutriment
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