What's the difference between pander and ponder?

Pander


Definition:

  • (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
  • (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
  • (v. t.) To play the pander for.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a pander.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
  • (2) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
  • (3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
  • (4) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
  • (5) But Baptiste never seems like he’s polemicising, still less that he’s pandering to the expectations of a mostly white audience.
  • (6) The film thus panders to the tendency of Germans to see themselves as victims of Nazism and war rather than perpetrators.
  • (7) It’s amazing to see a new generation of activists, who understand that we can no longer compartmentalise issues or pander to governments or industry to create the change we need.
  • (8) The Institute of Directors, meanwhile, said it was “astonished by the home secretary’s irresponsible rhetoric” and accused her of pandering to anti-immigration sentiment and putting internal party politics ahead of the interests of the country.
  • (9) Such pandering was a mistake because they would never be satisfied until Britain left the EU, McFadden argued.
  • (10) In Bristol he is expected to attack politicians who "pander to prejudice or xenophobia".
  • (11) As the neck of the latebra approaches the blastoderm, it flares out to become the nucleus of Pander.
  • (12) The Canadian government, which had lobbied hard for the project, said it was disappointed, and the oil industry accused Obama of pandering to his base.
  • (13) He had absolute control of a very rowdy crowd without pandering to them at all, and was so delightfully silly that it actually turned them into a pleasant bunch of people.
  • (14) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
  • (15) Instead, this is empty rhetoric from a weak prime minister who is pandering to the backbenchers that forced out Andrew Mitchell."
  • (16) Consequently, the candidates and their remarks are seen as pandering to black voters.
  • (17) So everyone – from Cochran to McDaniel to the "Democrat" Childers – panders to those voters.
  • (18) Keita has promised to continue along these lines, but his campaign hinged on national honour and dignity, pandering to public opinion in the south openly hostile to any understanding with the forces that plunged Mali into chaos.
  • (19) She will, for example, remind the others if they play fast and loose on the immigration debate, that conceding ground to half truths and lies ultimately panders to prejudice.
  • (20) Why media-bashing should be such a popular pastime among key Republicans is relatively easily explained by reference to opinion surveys which suggest that the politicians are merely pandering to the prejudices of rightwing voters.

Ponder


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To weigh.
  • (v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
  • (v. i.) To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (2) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
  • (3) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
  • (4) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.
  • (5) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
  • (6) Some epidemiological data have been collected, among which: the importance of ponderal overload in patients studied and the prevalence of the right joints diseases on the left one's.
  • (7) Nor do most of its users – as they check out the capital of Georgia or guiltily plagiarise the entry on Marx – ponder how this Eden is sustained in its spotless state of nature.
  • (8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
  • (9) The air was sampled daily by glass fiber's filters; a ponderal determination of total particulate was made; PAH was dosed by gas-chromatography and by mass spectrometry, metals was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (10) In these six pairs a normal ponderal index in the lighter twin members was associated with poorer growth than a low ponderal index.
  • (11) The ponderal quantity of 140 S antigens and their peptide distribution are controlled in concentrated virulent and inactivated preparations proir to their being transformed into vaccines.
  • (12) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
  • (13) Objective identification of infants with significant intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was done using the ponderal index (PI).
  • (14) Plasma lipid levels were significantly lower when the animals received the diets containing milk instead of the diet without milk: cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL-cholesterol were reduced by 5.6, 5.8 and 10% respectively (pondered means) while HDL-cholesterol remained unaffected.
  • (15) I pondered the scene once or twice last week, with the news dominated by Lord Rennard and ongoing allegations of his having groped women .
  • (16) The mean fetal ponderal index of the controls was 8.60 (SD 0.84) and in the risk group 7.72.
  • (17) Correlation analysis revealed that longer average initial fixation time was associated with male sex, shorter birth length, and larger ponderal index.
  • (18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
  • (19) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
  • (20) At birth, 14 normal babies had average ponderal indices, 14 were overweight for length (high ponderal index), 18 were underweight for length (low ponderal index), and 15 had short crown-heel lengths for dates and normal ponderal indices.