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"We'll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily," Trump said, addressing reporters during a White House meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Friends of Big Bear Valley is pretty confident it’s Jackie, based on photos, videos and the fact that the beloved matriarch has been absent from its livestream cameras for days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

“The past few starts have been better with that, and then kind of a step back today, which is pretty frustrating.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“It’s pretty incredible, it’s a fun ride, and we want to keep it going.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

I’m pretty sure I knew that before, deep down, but now I know it for real.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Squadrons of hair-metal pretties followed the new-wave glamourpusses, and even paragon-of-rock-virtue Bruce Springsteen had to wiggle his bum for pop culture’s new star-making machine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

I mean, it’s at that point you want to say, “Hello, my pretties, soon you too will be wearing the burgundy lipstick.”

From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018

For $18.50, these twinned pretties seem just right.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2016

Last week, Kane’s hometown newspaper, the Times-Tribune of Scranton, ran a Halloween-theme cartoon of her as a witch saying: “I’ll get you my pretties … and your filthy emails too.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2015

Through everything else, the forms of cruel pretties moved.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Over the past few weeks, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to make weeknight cooking feel a little easier, a little prettier and a little more satisfying on a budget.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

"I think my creativity has increased during the war. I'm constantly stressed and end up building prettier homes in the game," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

At Pershing Square, for instance, sits her “Spike Cafe,” a mini tropical hideaway atop a parking garage sign where umbrellas and finger food props have become a prettier nesting spot for pigeons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now it’s an endless scroll of people who appear richer, prettier, more successful.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

He also drove rich people around with his show horses and buggy, which were way prettier than those at the Greenbrier.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

He’s a 10-time Pro Bowl selection whose moon ball is one of the prettiest, most dangerous downfield passes in league history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

“Even though I might have not been the most successful or the prettiest model that she had, I was reliable,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Once made, it is a beautiful shade of pink, dotted throughout with colorful fruits and berries, so serve it in your prettiest bowl because it brings plenty of visual appeal.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Former England defender Laura Bassett added: "She has really driven this team on to get this win. It is not the prettiest win but she has been at the heart of everything."

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

But Papa always said New York was the prettiest city in the colonies, and Nate agreed.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

The chef thinks outside the forum with a skewer of grilled portobello mushrooms on smoked graviera cream — a meat-free souvlaki prettied up with grated cured egg yolk and newly rethought with farro and hazelnuts.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2022

Fake flowers, small porcelain dolls and crucifixes prettied the living room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

Lackluster compounds are evaluated in ways guaranteed to make them look good, Goldacre writes, then prettied up even further with distorted claims of efficacy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2018

They are prettied up, to be sure – they are not the oligarchy as it is, but as it would like to see itself.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

Aunt Loma’s face prettied with pleasure at the compliment.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Kate, for her large part, is not satisfied to be "a plastic doll,…. a male-created bland and standard wife whose only job is prettying the prince" and to "produce an heir — and spare."

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2017

If your partner isn’t willing to embrace these incidents, you’re probably going to feel prettying alone in addressing them.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2015

But there’s not way of prettying up the squalid truth: “My legendary girlfriend, she is crying tonight / Oh no, she doesn’t feel right / She’s got no one to hold.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2015

But these women are not ornamental, prettying up the scenery.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2010

As the nomad tribe passed from place to place with its goats, its sheep, its camels, Johnny with his sons and grandsons would take to prettying up the camp sites a bit.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association