pretty

And they chuck it together and it looks pretty if you’re photographing it and it tastes like God knows what.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

The title of the article I wrote for The Wall Street Journal, “Why The Smart Money Rents In Miami,” pretty much tells the story.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

And it’s pretty tough to have a margin expansion goal, set targets and manage and measure that when you don’t have a supply-chain finance person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Her impact on the public discourse around medical advice was pretty uniformly terrible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

I know I need to clarify that I could only help sometimes, and not the way I’m pretty sure he expects me to, but I couldn’t disappoint him.

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

For Christmas, Watson said she has a rotating Christmas Tree that she pretties with all Disney-themed ornaments.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 12, 2020

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

Even when she and Peris used to spy on them from the shadows, giggling at all the stupid things the pretties said and did, they couldn’t resist staring.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

That has led some developers to hope that a prettier wrapper can help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

But the price tag, some will think, is even prettier.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

I can’t get over how much prettier she looks in person.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

“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

“I feel like the prettiest girl in the room right now,” he quipped, accepting the director trophy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 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

“My mom always said you were the prettiest girl in the neighborhood,” he says.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

The setting: a two-story home in Whittier prettied with holiday decorations, pet beds, American flags and a shelf of tchotchkes dedicated to John Wayne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

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

I long for my days at the gallery, prettied up, hair done, talking to adults about art or films or nothing at all.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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