drab
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That sentiment can often seem true in a market where studio executives favor sequels and drab intellectual property over originality and fresh takes.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Emma Garman’s “The Kindness of Strangers” is set in London in 1953, a postwar era so drab that even the weather seems exhausted.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The backdrops are always drab; concrete floors and metal doors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
It was July 2015, and Sherman, then a top Obama administration official at the State Department, had just stepped up to a lectern in a drab conference room.
From Slate • May 1, 2026
They were quickly named the Truck of Many Colors and Staff Car, the latter a battered olive drab army surplus sedan.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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