drab
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On May 10 in a Damascus courtroom, Atef Najib, Assad’s cousin, sat shackled in a metal cage dressed in a drab striped prison uniform.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
The backdrops are always drab; concrete floors and metal doors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
“We cherish pleasure,” the authors write unabashedly, “and believe a politics without it will be unattractive, drab, listless, and doomed to failure.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
And who else but the Lakers to provide some spice during the drab stretch of the season between the trade deadline and the playoffs?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
On June 13, Paul Stombaugh waited for his contact on a drab Moscow city block.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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