fodder

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The novel partnership between students and police to break open a decades-old murder case, with a love triangle at its center, was irresistible fodder for the media’s true-crime boom.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Foreman also defended his right to use the raid footage as fodder for his work.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Adding to the costs was the expensive fodder that farmers had to buy while their herds were unable to graze in the open fields.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

They were concealed in the fodder house, not far away from the cabin where Old Rit and Ben now lived.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry