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fade/pale into insignificance if something pales into insignificance, it does not seem at all important when compared to something else When your child's ill, everything else pales into insignificance. With the outbreak of war all else fades into insignificance. See also: fade How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Canada border fade into insignificance when we are confronted the reality of Hurricane Katrina and the havoc that it's wreaked across the Gulf Coast of the United States. But even those inconceivable sums fade into insignificance next to the "fiscal gap" created by future federal obligations created by Social Security and Medicare--bills that will start coming due as the Baby Boomers begin to retire in 2008. This is a conceptual boldness in the face of which the novel's natural competitors in the current crop of "sistah girlfrien' "romances must fade into insignificance. |
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