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"It makes it harder to assign attribution because if all of your attacks and groups are coming out of Iran, you can pretty much link it to Iran," Wright said.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests it’s pretty close to her current SSI payment of $270, meaning the SSA has probably already evaluated her existing living arrangement and applied the full PMV reduction.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

That’s how it works in love stories and, as “Brand New Day” is proving, love stories are pretty hard to beat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

“When we create a modern suburbia with fragmented parks and green space, we do a pretty good job at creating mosquito habitat,” Norris said.

From Slate ● Aug. 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

Dr. Cable would never come here now, and no one could ever take her away from David or the Smoke, or do to Tally’s brain whatever the operation did to pretties’.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

“Imogen was a million times prettier than you will ever be.”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

He’s a 10-time Pro Bowl selection whose moon ball is one of the prettiest, most dangerous downfield passes in league history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

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

“What’s happening, young brothers,” the prettiest one said.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

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

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

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