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What really sparked me getting season tickets was that I had a few friends that were season ticket holders and they had been pretty close with some of the team reps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Royal tours may look pretty but they can be gruelling.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

“The Uber Eats brand will show up in one of the most frequented websites in the U.S., which I think is a pretty amazing channel for us to tap into.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

No major tech boss had commented on the election as of Thursday except Musk, who joked: "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 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

For new pretties, they seemed so determined, so focused on their task.

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

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

She gets prettier every day, and I’m in love with her sometimes.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

The prettiest team at the tournament was learning to win ugly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

Horace Walpole called the Venetian Jubilee of April 1749 “the prettiest spectacle I ever saw,” though there was “nothing Venetian about it,” apart from a shallow canal and a “sort of gondola” loaded with musicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The stable was finer than any house in the neighborhood and the yard was the prettiest in Williamsburg.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

There are parts of Kentucky where the ground is pruned and prettied, and there are parts where the grass just grows.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

Miss Shirley doesn’t usually mind all the ruckus on her Southwest Washington street corner, which was recently prettied up with a sprawling, candy-colored mural of a lotus blossom and a child.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

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

“You’ll have to tell me all about it But don’t you dare tell anyone else. Not yet. Everyone’s going to be so intrigued. We can throw a big party when you get yourself prettied up.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

By hanging a sign on, exposing, illuminating or prettying up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2014

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