bland
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Under the proposals, packging would need to be bland, with limits on what imagery and branding could be used.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The California electorate has typically favored experience over youth, and favored bland and boring over razzle and dazzle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
To someone who accused him of supporting bland corporations instead of mom-and-pop shops, Hilton responded that he went there because Romero once worked there.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
She usually liked her avocado without salt, but it was bland now, almost nauseating.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pressure from these investors may also add to the US app feeling "blander" said Mr Navarra.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
Consumers, bored by the softer, blander Red Delicious variety that had ruled grocery aisles for decades, discovered an apple that was sweet and so texturally satisfying they never looked back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
The flavors of zucchini and yellow summer squash are similar, with the yellow versions being a little blander, and sometimes less firm in texture.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Others have resigned themselves to a blander life.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
Somebody asked Jay Leno, late-night’s blandest clown, to share his opinions concerning late-night’s decline.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025
In 1920, Sen. Warren G. Harding campaigned for president on one of the blandest platforms in U.S. history.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022
By contrast, Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly described the opening scene as "the blandest possible orientation, Epic Fantasy for Dummies" and said the good news is that "the beginning is the worst part."
From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2022
At its blandest, it’s also shown that NOS, or nitrous-oxide-systems-fueled, operatics and sleeveless melodrama can carry the audience only so far.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
Those self-important women gained local immortality for the blandest, the most timid of eccentricities—walking a cat on a dog’s lead, riding about on a man’s bike, being seen with a sandwich in the street.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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