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to make white or whiter by removing color
the sun eventually paled my bright blue shirt
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Recent Examples of paling
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
Local revenue for most NFL teams ranges from $160 million to $240 million, paling in comparison to national revenue.
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Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
For Adebayo, there still is a considerable gap to overcome, with his 10,001 points paling in comparison to Wade’s 21,556 with the Heat.
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Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
Local revenue for most NFL teams ranges from $160 million to $240 million, paling in comparison to national revenue.
—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paling
Noun
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Yorkshire Pecorino gleams pale, smooth, and yogurty.
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Some things do seem beyond the pale to this group.
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Nolasco said a taper is the favorite haircut these days and there’s also players bleaching their hair blond for the playoffs.
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Justine Skye took this mousy brown look to the next level by bleaching her brows to match.
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Fifty years and thousands of runs later, six of the original players still take to the diamond nearly every Sunday, swinging for the fences.
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Oracle Park’s spacious dimensions and San Francisco’s chilly climate have suppressed home runs for more than two decades, but this was a true no-doubt blast that cleared the left-center field fence by plenty of feet.
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Their self-cleaning nature means blooms drop naturally after fading, eliminating tedious deadheading.
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Halsey and her fans’ outrage over an old album review is showing no signs of fading.
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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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Try a low stakes upgrade by brightening your profile photo, helping a simple hello travel farther right now.
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With a steadily brightening Sun, when does the Earth either get too hot or too CO2-starved for the base of the food chain to survive?
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Some states have argued that requiring applicants to provide documentary proof of their citizenship could pose a significant barrier to voting because several forms of government ID don't include citizenship information, and many Americans don't have passports.
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How phytic acid may support gut lining repair A preclinical mouse study from the Guha Lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, published in Nature Communications, suggests phytic acid helps keep the intestinal barrier intact.
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“Paling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paling. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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