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
Some enjoy their khichuri bland, with no vegetables or seasonings.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
Given the choice, I’d prefer to see a truly terrible movie over one that’s merely bland and mediocre.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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
He noticed that the emotional heaviness had transformed into bland lifelessness.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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
“And I don’t think people say, ‘I’ve tried a lot of bold flavors, now I’m going to go back to blander ones.’”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Immediately, her mother and sister were there to interpose a blander timetable.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Temperatures are dropping, grocery prices keep climbing, and there’s a small, almost alchemical satisfaction in transforming the blandest, cheapest grain in the aisle into a breakfast worth lingering over.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
As a protagonist, Sandy is the blandest of heroes, “a middle person, a middleman,” Lethem writes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2020
Open Google Maps, find a place that is not a place but, rather, on the way to other places, and select the blandest hotel you can find.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2019
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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