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“Training is pretty easy if you want to be what they call a ‘popcorn projectionist,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

These findings are pretty much par for the course.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Overall, my results were pretty average, says Dr. Matthew Campen, a professor at the University of New Mexico and a leading microplastics researcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

"What makes AI particularly concerning is that it's not a tool designated for one specific kind of activity. It's something that can be used across pretty much any intellectual, reasoning, cognitive activity."

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

Mien was a pretty young Dutch woman we had met in Vught.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

This was more stunning than the felled trees or the cruel pretties; as overwhelming as anything she’d felt since Peris had gone away.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

Not only is the result prettier than grass, the plants also support pollinators like moths and butterflies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Stefan Galvez-Abadia, Caltrans’s district division chief of environmental planning and engineering, is now attempting with his team to design a prettier bridge at Gleason Beach, one more fitting for the rural landscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

“Your deer are much prettier than our ugly buffaloes,” she said, turning to the prairies for help and feeling glad that she had read one of the boys’ books in which Jo delighted.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

“Going there, it was like the prettiest place ever; very pastoral, it blew my mind,” Chambers said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

They spiraled into coils and then braided themselves, forming the prettiest headband Aru had ever seen.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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