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as in faded
lacking intensity of color
we chose a very pale pink for the walls of the room
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as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
after a week with the flu, she was deathly pale and noticeably thinner
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a pale outline off in the distance proved to be someone out for a walk
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as in to bleach
to make white or whiter by removing color
the sun eventually paled my bright blue shirt
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Recent Examples of pale
Joe Sevier,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 June 2026
The makeover, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, emerged with pale stone, blond wood and enough greenery to to make even the indoors feel lush.
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David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
The hoopla surrounding Clark’s win paled in comparison to how the Rookie of the Year the following season chose to celebrate her moment.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
This strapless pale pink Armani Privé gown shows just how much Queen Bey has refined her style over the years.
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Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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Adjective
At this point, the sausages should be fully cooked but still pale.
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Joe Sevier,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 June 2026
The makeover, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, emerged with pale stone, blond wood and enough greenery to to make even the indoors feel lush.
—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Verb
Past efforts at protecting the Declaration paled in comparison to the full power of modern science brought to bear for the first time to preserve the timeworn parchment.
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Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
The hoopla surrounding Clark’s win paled in comparison to how the Rookie of the Year the following season chose to celebrate her moment.
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Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
Noun
Eddie looked real pale in that elevator!
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Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
This strapless pale pink Armani Privé gown shows just how much Queen Bey has refined her style over the years.
—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pale
Adjective
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Directed by Son Jae-gon and starring Gang Dong-won, Uhm Tae-goo, and Park Ji-hyun, the film tracks a faded first-generation K-pop co-ed dance trio making a reckless attempt to stage a comeback two decades after a plagiarism scandal dissolved their careers.
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The one difference was a new layer of red bricks over the faded previous layer.
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Opponents of the proposal want the county to consider different locations for the park site, arguing the project may harm a variety of native species to the area, including the western spadefoot toad and pallid bats.
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While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.
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Acting on such vague forecasts, like shorting Bitcoin, carries immense risk due to its volatility.
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But the movie never seems to have a grip on its hero’s moral code; despite urging Ruthye not to kill the villain, Kara’s outlook on her own use of lethal force remains frustratingly vague.
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After seeing their brows bleached for the first time at our shoot, Megan and Daniela’s excited screams cause everyone’s heads to whip toward the glam room in a mixture of both fear and curiosity.
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Ortega can be seen leaving her Wednesday-era long jet-black hair and bleached eyebrows behind.
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IsoHemp’s blocks, made out of hemp and lime binders, can be integrated into load-bearing structures, and are suitable for both interior and exterior walls.
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In the second inning, the Giants’ Matt Chapman hit a liner off the left-field wall to bring home Willy Adames and give San Francisco a 2-0 lead.
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The traditional architecture is intact with thick walls, desert light, wood beams, stone fireplaces, and classic New Mexican tile floors.
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For a lighter version of the salad, use 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt in place of 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
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Single dishes tend to be more sensitive and able to pick up faint radio waves from deeper in the cosmos, but radio arrays with many dishes tend to capture much sharper images.
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However, this new research showed that these point sources, including pulsars, would be extremely faint, and that is good news for scientists who favor annihilating dark matter as the cause of these gamma rays.
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But Rosales said that tradition was fading, possibly another casualty of a more cutthroat political climate.
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The pen barrel depicts fields of wheat that fade into plowed farmland and trees, with distant mountains rising beneath a vast open sky.
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“Pale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pale. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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