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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

Under the proposals, packging would need to be bland, with limits on what imagery and branding could be used.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

“A lot of the songs were quite bland, but they were a way of saying we can be members of the same community.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 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

The international press was simply saturated with stories of violence from Africa, and this one was particularly bland and pedantic, the deputy editor wrote, but perhaps Richard could do a piece on the human angle?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Specificity might make for a more conventional, perhaps blander feat of reportage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Those “unnatural” feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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

In 1920, Sen. Warren G. Harding campaigned for president on one of the blandest platforms in U.S. history.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 13, 2022

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

The electronic accompaniment is minimalism at its seemingly banal blandest — Satie or Philip Glass reduced to beginner rhythms and harmonies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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