pale
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His pale, almost translucently white skin was stretched across the bones of his face like parchment.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Meanwhile, juveniles are pale brown with tints of bronze-green on the wings and back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
Croteau looked around to see people holding their pale faces in their hands, fighting the urge to vomit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The man stopped his spinning and looked up at me with pale, penetrating eyes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
“England vs. Argentina is a great sports story, but pales in comparison. Nice try, WSJ.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
It’s still dark, but the eastern sky pales, and Veturius speeds his gait.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Symptoms can include jaundice, itchy skin, darker pee, paler poo, unexplained weight loss, tiredness and high temperature.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
He withholds his approval to keep the paler, smaller man anxious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Icing will turn a paler shade and thicken.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
The five bureaus were painted with wavy stripes of pale and paler lavender.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
“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
In recent years, winemakers have responded to a market that clamors for the palest of pale pinks to drink the year after harvest.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2021
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
She went to the window and stared out, trying to spot the bird among bare oak branches that stood out black against a broken sky of gray and palest blue.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
While it drew in 6.1 million concurrent viewers, that number paled in comparison to the 135 million viewers who tuned in to Bad Bunny’s halftime show, according to initial reports from NBC and CBS News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Halligan’s turn in the spotlight has paled beside the glow of another pageant veteran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
I suppose I had Father Issues too, though they paled in comparison.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Even Marvel has recently seen lower box office results for its films — despite critical praise, “Thunderbolts*” grossed about $382 million worldwide on a budget of $180 million, paling in comparison to past films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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
Thick black smoke curls up from the other side of the Quarter, paling as it rises into the hot sky.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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