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“That’s something we’ll all see. I imagine, from what I’ve seen in practice, it’s going to be pretty close. They’re both good.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Focusing on beverages has allowed retailers to recapture audiences with an affordable luxury that’s cheaper than buying a full meal, is pretty enough to post, and brings in more consumers during off-peak hours.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Heisenberg: I could have picked pretty much any Hull player as one to avoid, because in all honesty we should be avoiding most of their squad.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

A partial eclipse like the one the UK experienced on Wednesday meant the sun was still pretty bright, so far fewer people may have tried to stare at it directly.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I’m pretty certain I didn’t make any such promise.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

What if these terrible pretties had been made this way intentionally?

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

The dreamy-rootsy arrangements are never less than handsome — and never prettier than in “Fool,” which Hoffs says was inspired by her love of the records Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach made together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

She looks like a doll that you see in a box on a shelf, except she’s prettier.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

“You can imagine stepping off the train in 1880s Monrovia and going and staying in this exact inn in the prettiest little town in the Old West,” Cain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

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

Ben took the card and, holding it close to the candle, read aloud: “‘Here’s twelve roses for the prettiest girl at the hop.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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

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