pale in comparison (with something/someone)

Examples of pale

pale
The size of the climate impacts pales in comparison with the size of the economies of the richer nations.
Attitudes towards boundaries were ambivalent and there was a campaign to establish permanent divisions with walls or pales to eliminate disputes.
The magnitude of the regional differences should be stressed: the palest areas in the map recorded fewer than half the attendances per capita of the darkest shaded areas.
He sat slowly back in his chair, his face very pale and as if bewildered.
Such minor reservations pale into insignificance beside the immense scholarly achievement this edition represents.
To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended.
One wing lacked the sector pale spot and the presector dark plus the sector dark was 1.06 mm.
One wing lacked the apical dark spot and the preapical pale plus apical pale was 0.52 mm.
A firm, well circumscribed nodule with a homogenous pale purple cut surface was found in the right adrenal gland.
The earlier forms of dissocians to appear were all, apart from the few exceptions mentioned, of the pale-headed type.
Ties between devotees, where they exist, pale into insignificance in comparison.
One may be inclined to think that the type of acceptances involved in internal legal statements must be somewhat weaker or paler than the acceptances involved in ethical statements.
At the same time, the relative influence of ill health pales in the face of the effects of the sociodemographic characteristics of the men.
Next to lexical semantics, the acquisition problem for grammar pales by comparison (377, emphasis in the original).
Alongside that, the one-off hit of £5 billion in windfall taxation almost pales into insignificance.
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