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The key for scammers is that the more-refined voices AI can now produce are nothing like the bland, robotic voices you might get when you call a customer-service number.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Speaking of unwatchable, if you’re over the age of, say, 11, feel free to skip the utterly generic and bland “The Mandalorian and Grogo,” the worst “Star Wars” spinoff movie yet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

What’s getting attention, however, is not bland, consultant-approved talk about the price of groceries.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Regardless, look for the Chargers to be bland, bland, bland as they evaluate the back end of their roster and decide who to keep and who to cut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Then came a band of six royal guards, dull and bland as porridge.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

The question then is whether children will still bother with them, once they are deliberately toned down into a much blander offering.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Because the problem is that the better you get, the more sort of blander it gets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

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

Cameron’s “As You Grow,” a story about caring for others, is the blandest of the bunch.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

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