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Recent Examples of blandness
Dawn Heuer, the founder of The Heuer Design Collective in Atlanta, Georgia, shares similar feelings regarding the blandness of gray.
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Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Saft deplores this conciliatory blandness.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
One veteran Hollywood insider not connected to Disney said the utter blandness of ABC’s Wednesday statement is evidence that the company was winging it and essentially stalling for time.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
Saft deplores this conciliatory blandness.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
One veteran Hollywood insider not connected to Disney said the utter blandness of ABC’s Wednesday statement is evidence that the company was winging it and essentially stalling for time.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blandness
Noun
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Regularly maintaining your granite countertops is crucial to prevent stains, scratches, and dullness.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2025
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The high-tech mask uses a combination of red, red plus infrared, and blue LEDs that help with common skin problems like fine lines, sagging, wrinkles, dullness, and uneven texture.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Break up the monotony of winter with this shiny nail set.—
Odeya Pinkus,
InStyle,
4 Jan. 2026
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As a result, much of the original's monotony was nullified, but what about the rest?—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
26 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The TriFold’s back has both a camera bump and three lenses that protrude further out, undermining the broader emphasis on thinness.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2025
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Consumers favored battery life and cameras over thinness.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Dec. 2025
Noun
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There is a predictability about their play, yet a lack of attacking patterns.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Rituals create predictability, and predictability creates belonging.—
Stephanie Hind,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Many women with natural hair can empathize with the breakage concerns and tediousness that can arise when taking down protective styles.—
Caché McClay,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The problem with that is that good teams — the winning franchises — build their teams inside-out by fortifying the offensive and defensive lines, which just happen to be the areas of weakness this season.—
Omar Kelly
November 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Exports weren’t the only area that saw surprise weakness.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Any intrinsic sameness across models doesn’t have to be perfect to be useful.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Jan. 2026
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Quinn was careful not to flatten the comparison into sameness.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Blandness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blandness. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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