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“I’m pretty excited,” Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell said ahead of Murray’s debut next week against the rival Green Bay Packers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Through my art process, I realized: ‘Maybe I would be a pretty woman.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen, I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both.”

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

What they’re seeing is pretty grim—a onetime superpower that no longer evokes much respect or fear.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 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

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

“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

It turned out to be both prettier and worse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

That has led some developers to hope that a prettier wrapper can help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

At Pershing Square, for instance, sits her “Spike Cafe,” a mini tropical hideaway atop a parking garage sign where umbrellas and finger food props have become a prettier nesting spot for pigeons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

Now it’s an endless scroll of people who appear richer, prettier, more successful.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026

Ben runs a hand through his longer, prettier, darker hair.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

"That's the prettiest song I ever heard," Wagoner cried when he first heard it, her website says.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

As journalist Macaulay Connor says in “The Philadelphia Story,” “The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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

Juliet is dressed so fine in the prettiest long, flowing gown.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

She looked over a Mitla parking lot fence prettied with balloons and flowers fake and real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2020

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