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Already one million tourists have arrived – spilling out of archaeological sites and the narrow alleyways of the picturesque Plaka district beneath the Acropolis, piling into restaurants and cafes and cramming the stores that sell the fodder of every classic Greek holiday: sandals, statues, T-shirts and bags.
He added: "It is now clear that the BBC failed the students, who were unwitting human fodder used to fulfil John Sweeney and his wife's personal ambition to film inside North Korea.
As if One Direction and Bieber weren't enough to have older listeners running to Radio 2 or Absolute Radio – the likely shelters for them to start with – Grimshaw also had Matt Smith taking part in one of the features (The Wheel of Four Tunes) while another feature, Show Quizness, revels in the excess of celebrity magazine fodder.
Calling for a thorough investigation, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told a special session of the UN human rights council in Geneva this month that his office had received reports of the militants putting children forward as "expendable cannon fodder " for its first line of attack.
The films progressed from Ozploitation fodder to the portentous story of a broken man's spiritual voyage back to humanity via death-defying heroic acts.
I reported on stories about pollution, football violence, bombings in Sinai and the Morsi trial – the same kind of fodder Al-Jazeera covers in bureaus across the world.
Victor is easy fodder for the immigration services.
Children are also great viral video fodder , especially when they've done something naughty.
There's a small amount of cannon fodder in terms of runaways, drug addicts, prostitutes and tramps that are used.
As coverage of the Tour has gone up over the past decades, caddies have increasingly become part of the sport's storylines, fodder for the analysts on the Golf Channel to scrutinize and debate.
A generation of working-class Catholics who had faced death, fought back and been interned or imprisoned, emerged from the prisons and pariah status and are now regenerating places whose previous manufactured product was cannon fodder.
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The primary grammatical function of "fodder" is as a noun . It denotes substance, either literally as food for animals or figuratively as material that supports an argument, fuels a discussion, or provides inspiration. Ludwig AI shows its usage spans from literal to metaphorical contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
