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“Why am I in the middle of the most amazing adventure of my life yet feeling so pale about it so much of the time?” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

As a result, clouds that look pale yellow from far away could contain liquid that appears surprisingly dark when concentrated.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the news release, Schroeder likened the insects’ coloring — pale yellow with red accents — to Swift’s “iconic” blonde hair and red lips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

They were a rare and beautiful breed—their fur pale gray, their eyes the blue of a winter sky.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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 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

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

Stars glitter in the western darkness, but the sky pales to gray in the east.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Other common symptoms can include shortness of breath, heart palpitations, paler than usual skin and headaches, while some people could experience rarer symptoms like tinnitus, restless legs syndrome and hair loss.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

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 was taller than when he had left, paler and bonier, and he showed the first symptoms of resistance to nostalgia.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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

Or is it to make the palest wine possible?

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Out in the sunlight the air was balmy, and through skies of palest sapphire sailed clouds of gossamer silk.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

OpenAI’s talent, funding and scientific papers paled in comparison to Google.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Back then, IBM certainly wouldn’t have hired weird longish-haired geeks like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were working with chintzy little microprocessors that paled in comparison with IBM’s mighty mainframes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 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 everything that had happened before paled in comparison to this because there was so much more to lose now: Flora and her round and lovable head.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo

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

He looked at Anya, face paling, then back at the torchbearer.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack