pale
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Michtom, who emigrated in 1888 from an impoverished shtetl in the Russian Pale of Settlement, noted that the czar “was never that humanitarian.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
In Ryan Coogler’s Imax spectacle, where the blues collides with vampires, the monstrous transformation commences with Pearline’s siren call: “Pale, Pale Moon.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026
At the time Vucic had been working as a journalist and translator in nearby Pale "without any contact with military structures or operational activities", she said.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Goodie Mob painted with dark lyrics gleaned from a copy of Milton William Cooper’s Illuminati manifesto “Behold a Pale Horse” that Busta Rhymes gave to the group.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024
Pale light filled the yard when Lord Tywin Lannister took his leave of Harrenhal.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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