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My House Spice, which I use on pretty much everything, is my mother’s recipe, a Creole and Cajun spice blend with salt, pepper, granulated onion and garlic, cayenne and paprika.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

He has Evans too, although the person proposed to run baseball operations is pretty low on the list of priorities for MLB.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“The only way I know that is it doesn’t get like a gazillion views, but I’m in the Daily Mail and Page Six pretty much every two weeks,” she noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

I don't think they will get any of those things this week, because Forest are looking pretty solid.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was pretty nearly dark on our way home.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

She sat and stared, having to remind herself every few minutes that it had all really happened: the cruel pretties, the strange buildings on the edge of town, the terrible ultimatum from Dr. Cable.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

It turned out to be both prettier and worse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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

People said Mel Willis was a pretty woman, but Finn thought that even mad, Priscilla was a whole lot prettier.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

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

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

Three years ago it was named one of the prettiest places to do Christmas shopping by The Times newspaper and was praised for bucking the trend of struggling high streets.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Second only to Shenice’s honey-brown ones, G’ma’s got the prettiest eyes Scoob’s ever seen.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

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

And then they had to be prettied up, since they had been stored for years — decades in some cases — and weren’t exactly in shape to be displayed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 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

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