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fodder
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fodder as in:  cannon fodder

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She claims that Palestinians are used as cannon fodder in an attempt to destroy Israel.
cannon fodder = readily expendable
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    In the Iran-Iraq war, the ayatollahs sent children and civilians to the front-line as cannon fodder.
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    I'm not the only half-iced bugger-fodder.  (source)
    fodder = people thought of as readily expendable to further a military campaign
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    They were using me as fodder. They were hoping that the hyena would attack me and that somehow I would get rid of it and make the boat safe for them, no matter if it cost me my life.  (source)
    fodder = someone thought of as readily expendable to further a military campaign
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    It was standard procedure with any police force in the world to send in the cannon fodder first before opening negotiations.†  (source)
    cannon fodder = people thought of as readily expendable to further a military campaign
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    I'll remind him when we get to camp, and he can dispatch some of you talented fodder—I mean heroes—  (source)
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    We are the important ones, not these cannon fodder.†  (source)
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    To you they are only arrow fodder.  (source)
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    "Why, women and children and settlers are just cannon fodder for lawyers and bankers," Augustus said.†  (source)
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    The blaring music marshaled memories of battles won and lost, engendering arguments between old soldiers who had basically been the assault troops, cannon fodder, at once resentful and filled with the pride of survival because they had survived the blood and horror their gold-braided superiors knew nothing about.†  (source)
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    Yes, there were a few bright minds and young men from good families in the upper ranks of the global jihadist movement, but the foot soldiers and the cannon fodder were, for the most part, radical losers.†  (source)
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    For their part, the trolls and goblins were merely cannon fodder—if they survived the initial attack, and damaged the allies in the process, then all was good.†  (source)
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    His wit, which was often scathing and which relied on a subtle use of Southern courthouse rhetoric (doubtless derived in part from his father, a distinguished judge), had kept me laughing during the enervating wartime months at Duke, where the Marine Corps, in its resolve to transform us from green cannon fodder into prime cannon fodder, tried to stuff us with two years' education in less than a year, thereby creating a generation of truly half-baked college graduates.†  (source)
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    Maybe so, for cannon fodder.†  (source)
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fodder as in:  fodder for discussion

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The new unemployment report will be used as campaign fodder by both candidates.
fodder = something useful (for a particular purpose)
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    She uses the news as fodder for her world geography class.
    fodder = something useful
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    Laila did her best not to look at him, not to give these women any more gossip fodder than they already had.  (source)
    fodder = something useful for a particular purpose
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    Walter's sense of humor hadn't failed him despite his six years on death row. And this case had given him lots of fodder. We would often talk about situations and people connected to the case that, for all the damage they had caused, had still made us laugh at their absurdity.  (source)
    fodder = things useful for a particular purpose (in this case to cause laughter)
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    The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder.  (source)
    fodder = something useful for a particular purpose
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    what with foddering the cattle and tending the store, we are kept from school too long, and our education is sadly neglected.†  (source)
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    Land where our fodders died!†  (source)
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    It was widely known that Alice's fantastic stories had served as its inspiration--fodder for poking fun at her, if ever there was--but so well had she adapted to the customs and beliefs of the time, so well had she adopted the inclinations of other girls her age, that she'd befriended those who used to tease her mercilessly.  (source)
    fodder = things useful for
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    How is it we've got sight o' you so long before foddering-time?†  (source)
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    Peter would have to think twice about what he said or did, because otherwise, it would become fodder for rumors around school.  (source)
    fodder = something useful for a particular purpose
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    "The tale of my wonders must be taken more leisurely and not standing," said the man; "let me finish foddering my beast, good sir; and then I'll tell you things that will astonish you."†  (source)
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    This, too, was fodder for her enemies.  (source)
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    I worked on circuses for nearly seven years, and if that isn't fodder for conversation, I don't know what is.  (source)
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    No one seemed to be watching him or me to see us interact as gossip fodder.  (source)
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fodder as in:  cattle fodder

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    The drought raised the price of local fodder.
    fodder = hay
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    Just go on, go on ahead, I silently tell her. Get your picture taken with me and your life becomes fodder for the mill.  (source)
    fodder = food (figuratively)
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    Then roiling dust and debris and billowing smoke: The wheat is burning, consumed in a matter of seconds, tender fodder for the fire, and where the buildings used to be, a crater, a black hole bored into the Earth.  (source)
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    That night we stopped at a wayside inn where Reta bought fodder for the horses and a few other supplies.  (source)
    fodder = food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
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    There they are, shouted Aunt J. Just waiting for someone to bring 'em to fodder. A longhorn is an awesome sight, 2000 pounds of beef, with horns that could make the devil tuck tail.  (source)
    fodder = food such as hay given to domesticated animals
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    He could go each morning and evening to fodder his cattle, he supposed.  (source)
    fodder = give food such as hay or straw
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    But much was strange to me, especially the bicyclists with sheaves of fresh-cut grass heaped on their backs, processions of them bringing fodder for the herds of cows that milled around the tents and makeshift huts in the urban camps of the internally displaced.  (source)
    fodder = food such as hay or straw that is given to domesticated animals
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    I have given you fodder for your horses, and once the stair is done I will lend you builders to restore the Nightfort.  (source)
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    "Bagheera spoke truth," he panted, as he nestled down in some cattle fodder by the window of a hut.  (source)
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    The cattle may have a heavy load, but it won't help 'em to throw it over into the roadside pit, when it's partly their own fodder.  (source)
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    He'd be fodder.†  (source)
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    The eggs are placed in a cask containing crumbled sheep fodder, allowed to cool, and then covered completely.†  (source)
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    There's fodder in the shed for the horses, enough for two weeks, and if you don't come back this way, then I'll take them back down to the city.†  (source)
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