dullness
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The manufacturing hub, which anchors the region that is home to auto giant Toyota, is Japan’s fourth most-populous city and, according to a decade-old newspaper poll that still stings here, number one in dullness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
Excessive coloring of the hair to lighten the color can cause damage to the hair shaft leading to dullness, increased hair fragility, and breakage.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 22, 2023
A 90-minute ramble revealed L.A.’s familiar extremes: big houses alongside dingbats, the shock of the unexpected coinciding with numbing dullness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
“There was just a weird dullness on defense.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
There was no life in her anymore beyond that of an animal; you could see it in the dullness of her eyes.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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