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• This may seem over the top or beyond the pale, a takeover of a historic event by reality TV theatrics.
  — Ron Elving, NPR, 22 June 2024
• But the idea of keeping all those guys is just beyond the pale.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2022
• If Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't beyond the pale, who is?
  — Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021
• So many Libyans seem to exist beyond the pale of his sympathy.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• Calls for migrants to be shot and places of worship to be razed would be beyond the pale in most democracies.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• What age puts a person beyond the pale of our sympathy?
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2022
• Some in the media business who’ve been in Metrose’s shoes think his actions were beyond the pale.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• The finest artisans will give their customer a gentle nudge when an idea goes beyond the pale.
  — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021
• His show is his domain and having his hand forced like this so blatantly was beyond the pale.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• But the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have taught us that the land beyond the pale is crowded.
  — Lindsey Hilsum, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• For over 75 years, to criticize armed primacy in public has been to go beyond the pale.
  — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2020
• That said, these special protections are beyond the pale.
  — NBC News, 4 Sep. 2022
• Apartheid states are beyond the pale, the modern version of hostis humani generis, enemy of all mankind.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• There’s a plotline involving a swarm of bees that doesn’t seem beyond the pale of natural science.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• Madison, who has guided more than 70 clients to the summit of Everest, believed that the threat of a lawsuit over a judgment call for safety was beyond the pale.
  — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2021
• This is beyond the pale and undercuts any semblance of Ethical AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Whether such an increase in one calendar year is beyond the pale is debatable.
  — Ed Silverman @pharmalot, STAT, 2 Nov. 2020
• It’s been a bad week for a man who believes that a safe—an obvious investigative target—is beyond the pale.
  — Wired, 11 Aug. 2022
• But this time is different, Democrats say, because Gosar's behavior goes beyond the pale.
  — Melanie Zanona, CNN, 16 Nov. 2021
• No matter the steady rightward shift of Israeli politics over the last two decades, Ben-Gvir’s extremism was until not long ago seen as beyond the pale.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2022
• But the election results seemed to suggest the party, still viewed by many Germans as espousing politics that are beyond the pale, had hit a ceiling.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
• In court, her lawyer Kensley Barrett — a veteran himself — acknowledged her crimes were beyond the pale.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• For property tax burden, Texas ranked 36th — worse than average but hardly beyond the pale.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• By hacking a small company that provided remote services to hundreds of thousands of companies and agencies around the world, the agency went beyond the pale, the White House said.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2021
• The displacement of labor by lower-level workers in Hollywood likely plays a part in which AI uses are seen as acceptable, and which are beyond the pale.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• His criminal activities were so beyond the pale that no one would possibly suspect what was going on.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Steadily, far-right parties once considered beyond the pale have entered into the continent’s mainstream and in many places wield genuine power.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• World events have also played their part in the normalization of attitudes that were once beyond the pale, suggests Thomas Guénolé, a political analyst.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2021
• Soccer players will do anything to fool the referee, but regard reckless, injury-threatening tackles as beyond the pale.
  — David Papineau, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
• Thayer proposed that judges who were never elected could invalidate only laws that were genuinely beyond the pale.
  — Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024