More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.
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Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes,
14 Feb. 2023
Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.
Symptoms of heat exhaustion may include heavy sweating and fatigue, a weak pulse and skin that’s cool, pale or clammy, as well as headache, dizziness, nausea and fainting.
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Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
The wine is a pale straw with greenish highlights, featuring aromas of green apple, lemon, and spring flowers.
During a visit in August with two Times reporters, Mr. Perez’s skin was sallow.
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Aimee Ortiz,
New York Times,
7 Dec. 2023
An awkward, sallow, provincial, minor army officer, Napoleon, was irresistibly drawn to Joséphine, attracted by her proximity to the most powerful men in France.
Similar prompts yielded images of a skull with glowing eyes hovering above an ornate cross, and another pallid, blank-eyed woman — this one hooded, with a halo of fire, crying blood.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.
If the land in question has been converted from agricultural fields to golf-course acreage, the net impact of those other factors might actually be lessened, but that’s a wan exculpation.
—
David Quammen,
Outside Online,
2 Mar. 2020
What seemed inventive and clever in the confines of a small off-Broadway theater feels utterly wan in its current incarnation.
—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Oct. 2019
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