gruel
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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
Prisoners on kitchen detail lugged in great buckets of gruel made of wheat and peas, tasteless but nourishing.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
If the gruels are made with milk instead of with all water they become more evenly balanced.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
Under the circumstances milk, albumen water and fine cereal gruels are the best foods from which to formulate the diet after the necessary period of abstinence and fluid diet.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
No feed should be given for several hours after the operation, and then gruels only.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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