plain-vanilla


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plain′-vanil′la



adj.
having no embellishments; simple; basic.
[alluding to vanilla ice cream, taken to be the most basic flavor]
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The numbers will be higher than a plain-vanilla E5, but worth looking at.
Developers were ready to commit to Olympic-size pools, extensive green zones and not just confine their promotional strategies to plain-vanilla brick-and-mortar launches.
So it appears market domination will remain in the hands of the plain-vanilla originators for at least the foreseeable future.
The film has a good cast, and is competently made in a plain-vanilla way, but its greatest appeal will be to those who share its endorsement of traditional religious values.
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"You will see incredible results even out of what I consider to be absolutely plain-vanilla technology," Marchionne told reporters at an auto industry conference in Traverse City, Michigan.
The department could have built a plain-vanilla concrete box girder bridge for an estimated $141 million.
In terms of iconic events, the Washington summit, which closed last Saturday, was in the words of Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former chief economist of the IMF, a plain-vanilla one.
Every project we started was intended to give our plain-vanilla rancher the character of an older home.