drab
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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
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
Others suggested Army Air Corps camouflage: dark olive drab, medium green, neutral gray.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2026
They sat in the back, rigid and uncomfortable, like sisters of sin, like a living defiance of the drab sanctity of the saints.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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