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The milestone, made possible by billions in private and government funding, was on display in the middle of the Idaho desert, where a cluster of drab hangars might otherwise go unnoticed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

England remain in control of their destiny - but this was a drab encounter that brought them back down to earth with a bump.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

The backdrops are always drab; concrete floors and metal doors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

One drab woman was weeping silently into a dirty dish towel.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Unfortunately, the visuals suffer from many scratches and dirt specks popping up on the screen, and the second film has too much soft focus and a much drabber color palette.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

Take away one of those elements, and the scene gets a little drabber.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2020

Honestly, could the premise for a feature-length story of middle-aged malaise and inchoate yearning be any drabber?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2015

The dapper Huston interrupted a white-hot career streak — and an affair with Olivia de Havilland — for olive drab and an even drabber first assignment in the Aleutian Islands.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2014

If so Germany is the drabber, for the colour was a thing to make one's heart leap.

From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen

The warming trend comes only a couple of months after Southern Californians endured one of the drabbest and wettest winter in recent memory.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

To which Forest fan Pete Bancroft replied: "I'll take the drabbest 1-0 win you've ever seen."

From BBC ● May 8, 2023

A new study has found that botanists' research inexorably skews toward showy plants, whereas the drabbest, dullest and shortest are often left behind—even if they are endangered.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2021

Should he mention his belief that Beth was the drabbest diminutive of Elizabeth?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018

They are just dreams, nothing more; but none of life’s realities are half as good as those inspiring idle fancies which illumine the drabbest lives in the imaginative days of youth.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills

The day I went through, the interminable, oblique, thin rain took the gold out of the wheat and the brown from the distant fields and bushes, and drabbed all the colours in the grass.

From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert

“That’s his way, child, to-day a tinker, to-morrow something else; and as for being drabbed, I don’t know what to say about it.” p.

From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by Knapp, William

“That’s his way, child, to-day a tinker, to-morrow something else; and as for being drabbed, I don’t know what to say about it.”

From Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest by Watts, Theodore

Our forefathers occasionally drabbed baulor; some of our people may still do such a thing, but only from compulsion.”

From The Romany Rye by Borrow, George Henry

Our forefathers occasionally drabbed baulor, some of our people may still do such a thing, but only from compulsion.’

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by Sampson, John

‘Why, you have had a banquet of pork, and after the banquet Mrs. Chikno sang a song about drabbing baulor, so I naturally thought you might have lately been engaged in such a thing.’

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by Sampson, John

“Why, you have had a banquet of pork, and after the banquet, Mrs. Chikno sang a song about drabbing baulor, so I naturally thought you might have lately been engaged in such a thing.”

From The Romany Rye by Borrow, George Henry