vale

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Recent Examples of vale Hollywood’s leading performers, venturing into the dark vale of middle age, have often been kindly treated by directors of photography, if not by screenwriters. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025 EchoStar’s deal last year to sell Dish Network to DirecTV — then majority-owned by AT&T — was scrapped after EchoStar bondholders rejected the debt-exchange terms that would have reduced the vale of their holdings. Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Aug. 2025 The 2021 Caldor Fire raced toward the South Lake Tahoe neighborhood of Christmas Valley, tucked in a secluded vale. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025 The wind blew briskly over the glacier, and the vale echoed with the sound of frozen boulders crashing down the slopes. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025 Why should only suffering be a vale of soul-making, why shouldn’t the soul be made of this moment, too, this unremarkable moment, remember this. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 Its views extend across hills and vales to the village of Vila de Frades and beyond, to the more bustling town of Vidigueira. Mary Lussiana, airmail.news, 17 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vale
valley
Noun
  • Though expert hikers can make the round trip in a day, many take up to three, granting extra time to float in swimming holes, scope out waterfalls, and take in the hanging valleys and lush forests pouring into the sea.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Vale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vale. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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