gruel

It became something closer to porridge, or gruel, which delighted me.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Babies were weaned at an earlier age—they could be fed on porridge and gruel.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2019

Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Feeding is done through a glass tube, using milk, broths, and thin gruels.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

After this, the patient may have well-cooked cereal gruels.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

As anything of that kind would have made use for Jim's coffin-handles, I had to put up with soups and gruels.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck