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It’s pretty indicative of the breakdown of trust between physicians and families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Stern: Ordinary people standing up for what they know the Constitution guarantees: That turns out to be the origin story of pretty much every major civil rights movement in America.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

They could charge pretty much whatever they wanted, because it was almost impossible to find a landlord who wasn’t in cahoots with a broker.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

But to be able to compete with other teams, for pretty much the first time all year, was a major step.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Two other people lived in his home; they were his pretty, cheerful, innocent niece, about twenty, and his plump housekeeper, about forty, who was a good, friendly soul, with strong opinions about everything.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

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

On their expeditions, she and Peris had sometimes spotted pretties who looked familiar, like uglies they’d known.

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

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

The counterpoint is that the good life is prettier.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

The toilet was already disgusting before I got there and it wasn’t getting any prettier.

From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

“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

Her hair was short and curly and she had the biggest, prettiest, shyest eyes he’d ever seen.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

“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

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