pale
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We ate thick slices with cold salted butter — not so much smeared across the crumb as laid on in pale slabs, because patience has never been a prerequisite for breakfast.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
She told a local coordinator she believed the 37th image -- showing the pale, swollen face of a man lying on a pebbled riverbed -- was her childhood best friend.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
And those numbers pale in comparison to more-ubiquitous quick-service brands like McDonald’s, which operates 13,827 locations across the country, or Starbucks, with 16,875.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
What really catches my eye is a pale yellow glow in the corner of the room.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
And that’s certainly what she looked like when I first saw her, so shriveled and weak and vulnerable, her skin pale and paper-thin over her cheekbones, her hair creamy white against the pillows.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
But even this pales in comparison to a fantastical edifice called Anahuacalli, designed by Rivera in the 1940s to display his and Kahlo’s 60,000-piece collection of pre-Hispanic art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even with Wednesday's jump, growth in the company's share price has trailed other chip companies in recent months and pales in comparison to the stratospheric leaps in 2023 that followed the launch of ChatGPT.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The $300 dividend, I hope, pales in comparison, even though you were obviously confused and disappointed to miss out on the dividend.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
AIDS, as tragic as it is, pales in worldwide comparison to the more prosaic malaria, among other diseases.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
He turned back weakly to Snowden, whose breath had grown softer and more rapid, and whose face had grown paler.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
“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 world seems to have embraced the notion that rosé is meant to wear only the palest shade of pink.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
Forty years after my father’s interrogation I find myself following the palest of imprints of his journey, though with none of his courage, or certainty, and none of the risk.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2019
Among them, nodding on slender stalks, were other flowers, white and palest green: they glimmered as a mist amid the rich hue of the grass.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
OpenAI’s talent, funding and scientific papers paled in comparison to Google.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Quigleys fell in love with southern Georgia, but the schooling options there paled in comparison with what they found across the border in Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
But the harm caused by those excesses, Jacoby said, paled in comparison to the good that had been done by opening up the legal system to everyday people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026
More of that effort later, as it paled next to the highlights of this repertory mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Her whole body was flushed red, then paled.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
Piggy bumped into him and a twin grabbed him as he made tor the oblong of paling stars.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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