pale

Cooler stars appear orange, stars like our Sun look white, and the hottest stars shine pale blue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

In July, Byrne was visiting a friend’s house when the man turned pale and passed out at the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Their luminous, pale surfaces are covered in geometric markings that could be a lost version of cuneiform, and the objects’ irregular edges bring to mind a puzzle long ago disassembled and dispersed to far-flung locales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

A Groatie Buckie is a small, pale pink and white shell found on beaches across Orkney, which in local tradition brings good luck and fortune to the keeper.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Standing in front of me is a pale, freckled girl with orangish hair pulled into a topknot.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

Released months after “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” this occasionally ill-advised foray into psychedelia pales in comparison to the Beatles’ masterpiece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The recent flurry of activity pales in comparison to what unions were accomplishing in their 1950s heyday and the decades following.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

But this strategy pales in comparison to what’s possible with the newest legislation.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Added to this misery there’s another, but of a more personal nature, and it pales in comparison to the suffering I’ve just told you about.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The pod-like leaf called a spathe is slightly rounder and paler than the darker, flatter blades of seagrass.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In general, leopards living in open habitats tend to be larger and paler, while those in forested areas are often smaller and darker.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 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

She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

“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

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

The abstract artist Sean Scully has striped his canvases in yellows from palest omelet to warning flare.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2019

Gilderoy Lockhart, wearing robes of palest mauve today, came striding out.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

Yet such numbers paled in comparison to the billions of dollars that OpenAI’s Altman and Anthropic were bringing in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

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

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 my gratitude paled compared to my unalloyed joy that Walter and the others were free.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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