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"He did pretty well as far as longevity is concerned."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

And he says the amounts involved are pretty small.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

By some metrics, things are pretty bad too in England, where higher education used to be considered a good deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“She’s usually pretty good about it,” he said, “because everybody that lives here knows that road is just a deathtrap.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

To calm her down, I said, “You done some pretty quick thinking in there. I’ll give you credit.”

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

“I’ve heard of it. But it’s more of a crumbly drink. Um, I mean, mostly only late pretties drink it.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Left with no idea how to wrap itself up, “Undertone” throws every one of those horror tropes under a hydraulic press, shoving them together, hoping that the result will be prettier than just polished garbage.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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

There have been prettier Gunners teams than this, but they are just so effective and they don't concede.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025

There might be prettier or more sophisticated places to live than Caldwell and Middleton, but few that felt more comfortable or were better places to raise a family.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

“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

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

He then sat down with other volunteers in a shaded eating area prettied with multicolored bougainvilleas to fret about if their work even had a place in today’s Catholic Church.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

So he created The Ordinary, a line of a la carte ingredients that are usually prettied up or disguised and sold at a premium by other brands.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019

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