Examples of beyond the pale in a Sentence
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Clearly, this new congressional map is beyond the pale.
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Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
What was once beyond the pale has little by little become accepted.
—Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
These groups are often treated as heretics who split from Islam and whose beliefs and rituals are deemed beyond the pale of acceptance.
—Güneş Murat Tezcür, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
While these measures to revive manufacturing have gone well beyond prior Administrations (and perhaps beyond the pale), the impulse hasn’t changed.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
What was once beyond the pale has little by little become accepted.
—Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
These groups are often treated as heretics who split from Islam and whose beliefs and rituals are deemed beyond the pale of acceptance.
—Güneş Murat Tezcür, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
While these measures to revive manufacturing have gone well beyond prior Administrations (and perhaps beyond the pale), the impulse hasn’t changed.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
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“Beyond the pale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20the%20pale. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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