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An army of social-media users has found a lucrative side hustle in creating promotional content for brands from fake breakups and other quotidian fodder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A progressive capitalist, he nonetheless earned the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America and has joined New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as lefty vanguards and prime think-piece fodder.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

It has demanded a recovery plan to include fodder and subsidy support for farmers.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Coyote vs. Acme” would be very different if it had been made back in that decade where frivolous lawsuits were steady late-night joke fodder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

From the dark, heavy look of the sky, visible through the roof of the fodder house, it would be an all-day rain.

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

Not infrequently, such fodders as these produce so strong a taint in milk as to render it useless for human use.

From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

The grain goes futher when he fodders in that air way.

From Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier by M. A. Cornelius

The same principle applies in a lesser degree to the use of certain green fodders that are more suitable for feed, such as rape, green rye, or even silage.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings

After these come grain fodders, corn and sorghum fodders, and fodders from grasses, suitable in the order named.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

The amount will be influenced by the character of the fodders and by the season when the cattle are to be sold.

From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.

Have any men come home to the young women, Thinking old women do not need to hear, That you can play at being a bower-maid In a long gown although no beasts are foddered?

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley

They are, in fact, foddered exactly the same as cattle.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

In summer again, when the great heat dries 45everything up, they are foddered with hay under shelter.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

The horses were foddered at the other extremity, and a fire burned in the middle of the floor, the smoke escaping by the doors.

From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Andrew Archibald Paton

There, when he had foddered the deep-voiced kine, he herded them huddled together into the byre, munching lotus and dewy marsh marigold; next brought he much wood, and set himself to the craft of fire-kindling. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang

The foddering them from the stack in the field in winter also fell to the lot of the older members of the family.

From My Boyhood by John Burroughs

He knew nothing about foddering a vessel’s bottom, much less how to fodder it with the carcase of one of his fellow-creatures.

From Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

At this time, although no snow may have fallen, it is best to give the sheep a light, daily foddering of bright hay, and a few oats in the bundle.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings

Tommy Eye, teamster, stumbling towards the hovel for the early foddering, came upon him, and stopped and stared in utter amazement.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

A man leading a horse to water, or foddering his cattle from a stack in a snow-covered field, or following his plough, is always pleasing.

From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs