Word: paled
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...dark dining room is elegant—the walls are a pale yellow with dark blue trim and Persian carpets line the floor...
...example. And math concentrators here are likely better than any other comparable group in the country. Football players here, however, are likely bested by at least 100 comparable groups in their primary raison d’entrance. Sports are the only endeavor on all of campus where our students pale in comparison to the best of the nation...
...messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge to scoring five touchdowns in the fourth quarter, or hitting two grand slams in a massive ninth-inning rally. Sportswriters enjoy hyperbole only slightly less than metaphor, but the point was made...
...that their incarceration would hurt society more than it would help it. But these claims rightly tend to focus on the harm that would be done to the defendant’s family, not to the world of academia. The scientific consequences of a person’s incarceration pale in comparison to the damage that can be done by, for example, splitting apart a family...
...Even the defendant’s magnificent scientific achievements pale in comparison to the destruction of a young life,” Fasano said in his decision...