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"I was playing pretty normal, playing my style, and everything felt great."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

According to ImmediateAnnuities.com data, today’s rates beat those available pretty much throughout this millennium, apart from a brief period during the 2007-09 financial crisis when bond yields rocketed.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

You came to a pretty definitive idea about him on the show.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

Tim: Long-established tech players such as Microsoft have been pretty savvy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

“You look pretty young yet,” Sarah replied, her voice flat as she turned his way.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Cities worked very hard to stay independent of one another, but the Pretty Committee was a global institution that made sure pretties were all more or less the same.

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

It got prettier, too, when Claude Code built a cleaner user interface for…Claude Code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

There have been prettier Gunners teams than this, but they are just so effective and they don't concede.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

It was one of the prettier, more affluent parts of the South Side, where people kept two cars in the driveway and had abundant beds of flowers blooming along their walkways.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Using the descriptive phrasing that was common then among older people, she said, “That is the prettiest little girl I have ever seen.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

“You can imagine stepping off the train in 1880s Monrovia and going and staying in this exact inn in the prettiest little town in the Old West,” Cain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

She was far the prettiest girl in the school, but it is doubtful whether Aron had noticed that.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

She looked over a Mitla parking lot fence prettied with balloons and flowers fake and real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2020

So he created The Ordinary, a line of a la carte ingredients that are usually prettied up or disguised and sold at a premium by other brands.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

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