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The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety warned parents whose babies have consumed the food to consult a doctor if their children show signs of bleeding, extreme weakness or paleness.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

Fleming began with some paleness of tone, but grew in command through the evening, past her characteristic propriety to a kind of somber nobility.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2022

Each of the victims suffered from "malaise, paleness, fatigue, anorexia, dyspnoea and weight loss," accompanied by a trance-like, delirious state, according to the study.

From Fox News • Nov. 21, 2019

It accentuated the exact things that made him out of place here: his paleness, his youth, his unbridled joy.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019

He made pitiful efforts to appear gay, pleasant, talkative, but it was enough to see his sweat and paleness to know that his heart was not in it.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez