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“I grew up in a world as a trader where if I was wrong 49% of the time, that was a pretty good day, so I’m not afraid of putting out a forecast,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Sykes summed up “a pretty strong operating environment for banks” by citing high levels of consumer spending and continuing increases in U.S. households’ net worth.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026

And we are pretty low as it is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Did he say anything truly new at this fundraiser, like that he thinks James Talarico is a pretty good guy or that he enjoys wearing dresses when mowing the lawn?

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026

I’m pretty sure I know who left this flyer for me: the founder of Black Alliance, Zora Carter.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

Tally could hear her low, sure voice, and saw the new pretties relax.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Over the past few weeks, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to make weeknight cooking feel a little easier, a little prettier and a little more satisfying on a budget.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

But the price tag, some will think, is even prettier.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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

The poor man took this the wrong way and apologized for not bringing a prettier dress!

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

“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

They did it with pitching, hitting, depth, and two of the prettiest pieces of jewelry you’ve ever seen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

This Sun Maiden world of baths and fine jewelry and formal hair weaving was foreign to her, and she was no longer the prettiest girl whose beauty demanded the attention of everyone around her.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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