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blandness

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as in dullness

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Recent Examples of blandness The amount of color many of us encounter day to day keeps shrinking, Williams points out, largely because blandness is cheaper to produce and easier to sell. — Angela Haupt, Time, 30 June 2026 That geographic blandness only emphasizes the film’s other shortcomings, such as Schoenaerts’s anonymous work as the villain (a lot of glowering and creepy glares) and the rather rote big-sister/little-sister arc given to Supergirl and Ruthye. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 Vernaccia di San Gimignano, the region's only white DOCG, has now mostly shaken its reputation for blandness and its best growers are making fresh, saline expressions with shimmering delicacy. — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 But so much choice can mean repetitiveness at best, and blandness at worst. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2026 Obviously the blandness of a tan wall offends them. — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2026 Yes, nobody wants blandness from managers. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026 The blandness starts with its images and affects its performances, too. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026 Dawn Heuer, the founder of The Heuer Design Collective in Atlanta, Georgia, shares similar feelings regarding the blandness of gray. — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Even when used on its own, bleach is incredibly harsh and can strip your floors’ finish, leaving it vulnerable to damage, discoloration, and dullness over time.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2026
This wrapping mask is formulated with quintessential K-beauty ingredients like milk protein, collagen, and niacinamide, plus glutathione, a powerhouse ingredient my skin loves for preventing environmental damage, discoloration, and overall dullness.

— Essence Wiley, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dullness

Noun

Grande became the face of an ongoing conversation around health, and the cultural pendulum swing away from body positivity to the glorification of thinness, ignited by the proliferation of weight-loss drugs.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026
Lately, the talk behind closed doors is about extreme thinness.

— Marti Noxon, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of thinness

Noun

Hosting or deploying open-weight models can provide cost control and predictability.

— Aruna Veerappan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Cheng Xin / Getty Images Both sides will hold regular talks on potential investment opportunities and barriers, enhancing policy transparency and predictability, and responding to enterprises’ concerns, the ministry said.

— Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of predictability

Noun

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
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

Definition of tediousness

Noun

But ironically, this crowd-pleaser’s chief weakness is its approach to the dancing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Another source of industrial’s underperformance is recent weakness in defense stocks, a core group influencing the sector’s strength, according to DataTrek.

— Paulina Likos, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of weakness

Noun

Paradoxically, then, this system of individual artists pursuing individual success creates a new kind of sameness, which Chayka and others also describe as monoculture.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
This is why the sameness creeping into corporate communications right now bothers me more than the question of whether AI can write a good press release.

— Amanda Simonian, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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