pale
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His third term, however, has had the feel of a pale remake, with few genuinely new ideas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
A man who lived in the neighborhood, Sean Stanek, would recall a pale, “whacked-out” Blake pounding on his door and screaming, “You’ve gotta help me!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
There are opulent chairs, upholstered in pale yellow; a black and white print of a trawler that nods to Hull's fishing heritage.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
On my recent rereading of “The Secret Garden,” I was delighted by the moment when Mary, initially pale and peevish and uninterested in her breakfast, begins wandering the grounds with a jump rope in hand.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Regan said, her face pale in the moonlight.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
But this strategy pales in comparison to what’s possible with the newest legislation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026
Matthew Murphy, representing Stewart Jones, said his client had showed "genuine, wholehearted remorse" but his financial gain "pales in comparison".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
And yet, all that pales in comparison to what he has been forced to endure while his mother, Janet, twice battled cancer, affecting everyone emotionally and financially.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
However, this all pales in comparison to prime-aged fathers who have participation rates that frequently approach and surpass 95%, irrespective of their child’s age.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Her mouth goes slack and her face pales.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Symptoms can include jaundice, itchy skin, darker pee, paler poo, unexplained weight loss, tiredness and high temperature.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Whisk the yolks and lemon juice in the bowl until they've slightly changed color, to something a bit paler, and there's some clear froth.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
By then, Thyri, paler than usual, couldn’t crawl or stand up on her own, James said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2024
Interviewed this week at the Manhattan offices of his longtime publisher, Random House, he is thinner, paler, scarred and blind in his right eye.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Harry noticed that Malfoy looked even paler than usual.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
“It was important to figure out where those bright pinks would live alongside our palest, pastel pink and, of course, every tone of pink in between,” Gerwig says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
These cookies bake to a beautiful toasty color and are topped with an artful smear of the palest pastel icing that is lightning-fast to whip up.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2022
“The reason I’m calling it a ‘complex cream’ is because there are more pigments in the palest of beiges rather than just a cream, like Sherwin-Williams’s Dover White.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2020
My daughter, Marlow, is the palest person in the family by a standard deviation, and Valentine and I are preoccupied with preventing her from burning.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2019
There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
OpenAI’s talent, funding and scientific papers paled in comparison to Google.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Microsoft Azure’s 39% cloud growth in the fourth quarter paled in comparison to Google Cloud’s 48% growth, and investors were displeased by Microsoft’s decision to allocate more computing power to internal projects.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
The world- and local-premiere efforts paled in comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Davidson said the U.S. reaction to revelations from the Epstein files has paled in comparison to moves made in the United Kingdom, where the former Prince Andrew was stripped of his royal titles.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025
But even that landmark precedent, so crucial in establishing the republican principle of rotation in office, paled in comparison to an even more elemental political and psychological realization.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
That said, the approach adds texture to a film set during Carnival, the festival’s vibrancy paling in comparison to the creative exuberance on display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
What, you might ask, prompted this remark from the paling former personality?
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2023
But each of those fines was for just $6,949, paling in comparison to what Metcalf received for the incident with Baynes, and speaking to how the NFL views any verbal offenses directed at officials.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
Free agency is in its infancy in MLS, paling in the impact and intrigue that grips the NBA, NFL and MLB.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2019
In the fading light, the trees along the banks were slowly losing their dimensions, flattening into silhouettes clipped from black paper and pasted to the paling sky.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
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