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as in faded
lacking intensity of color
we chose a very pale pink for the walls of the room
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as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
after a week with the flu, she was deathly pale and noticeably thinner
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as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a pale outline off in the distance proved to be someone out for a walk
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as in to bleach
to make white or whiter by removing color
the sun eventually paled my bright blue shirt
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Recent Examples of pale
Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Apr. 2025
Lagers, which can be pale, dark, or amber, are characteristically light and crisp.
—Essence, 7 Apr. 2025
Piyachart Isarabhakdee, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
But that, and this current pickleball mania, pales in comparison to bowling’s boom.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Selena Gomez, too, went Old Hollywood in a pale, Cinderella blue Prada gown.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Typically, the model and Rhode founder sticks to her signature colors and manicures: pale, sheer pinks, soft French tips, and shimmery, frosty whites.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 Apr. 2025
Lagers, which can be pale, dark, or amber, are characteristically light and crisp.
—Essence, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
Yet, despite all this, the scale of progress pales in comparison to the powerful economic and political forces that continue to jeopardize our ecosystem.
—Piyachart Isarabhakdee, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
But that, and this current pickleball mania, pales in comparison to bowling’s boom.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
The United States does face its own daunting array of problems abroad and at home, but these pale in comparison to those China faces.
—Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Selena Gomez, too, went Old Hollywood in a pale, Cinderella blue Prada gown.
—Lindsay Kimble, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pale
Adjective
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Like Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who dwells on his long-ago high-school-football days, Garrett is living in the faded aura of past glory: in his case, a 1989 video-game championship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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As thousands of migrants cycled through its faded lobby, the Roosevelt turned into a lightning rod in the country’s immigration debate: both as a reminder of the depth of the crisis and as shorthand for critics opposed to the expenditure of taxpayer money on migrants.—
Luis Ferré-Sadurní,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The paintings are brushy and pallid, seemingly hinting at a dissatisfaction with commodified products such as these.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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Folk-rock and psychedelia would make Peter, Paul and Mary sound pallid and precious, although nostalgia sustained them through a later reunion career.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In fact, those professions grew because the accountant must also talk to clients, ask them questions, make judgement calls about sometimes vague tax code interpretations and execute numerous other judgements on a daily basis.—
Ismail Amla,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Instead of vague goals, such as align with human values, researchers and developers can talk about specific contexts and roles for AI more clearly.—
Aidan Kierans,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The mohawk itself appeared to be bleached dirty blonde.—
Lawrence Yee,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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After what feels like years of obsessing over eyebrow trends (skinny, perfectly bushy, bleached) to treatments like lamination and microblading, learning to love the unruly swirls that appear in our brows just feels right.—
Dulce Moncada,
Glamour,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart while holding a light pair of dumbbells.—
Matt Parrott,
Arkansas Online,
20 Apr. 2025
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These will look spectacular with a light blue denim set and a light turtleneck to match the footwear.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Being generally smaller, colder and much darker than a star, exoplanets are also harder to detect, so specialized techniques are required for capturing their faint signals.—
Shi En Kim,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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By subtracting these reference images from the target images, the team effectively removed the star's light, isolating the faint signals from the planets.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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As the water diluted the stains, the fabric faded to a soft pink.—
Rebecca Ruth Gould,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2025
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In the world of fashion, trends emerge and fade quickly, particularly among teenagers.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The new center’s acronym—CSAR—was pasted on an otherwise blank wall.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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The two runs came with two outs in the sixth when right fielder Brooks Baldwin couldn’t track down Trevor Story’s high fly near the wall, which landed for a double.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Pale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pale. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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