as in pale
lacking a healthy skin color
a pallid man who looked as though he'd never seen the sun
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Recent Examples of pallid
And try to summon, from our pallid, hazy situation, vistas of the sort that draw so sweet and pure a gaze.
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David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The first payroll report after the end of the government shutdown painted a pallid picture of the jobs market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
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David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
The first payroll report after the end of the government shutdown painted a pallid picture of the jobs market.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.
—Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
Yet senior test kitchen editor Jesse Szewczyk recently took one of those pallid lumps and coaxed utter brilliance from it.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pallid
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Once on the festival grounds, Kylie wore a ruffled, open front white Ann Demeulemeester top, paired with Levi’s 94 baggy jeans in a pale blue wash, Staud Freja leather thong sandals, a Chrome Hearts white gold belly chain, and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
12 Apr. 2026
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Blank Street’s roots trace back to 2020, when co-founders Freiha and Vinay Menda began selling coffee out of a pale-green coffee cart in the Williamsburg neighborhood of New York City.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Pallid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pallid. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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