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They aren’t living drab or depressing lives when the Guardians of the Universe activate them — they’re faring pretty well, all things considered.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Welsh Fire, Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit and Trent Rockets kept their names and their kits pretty similar, while Southern Brave traded their green and black for navy and red.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

I’ll give the skeptics their due, because private-equity data don’t paint a pretty picture.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

And they chuck it together and it looks pretty if you’re photographing it and it tastes like God knows what.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Above the fireplace is a family portrait: Joseph, his younger brother, and a pretty blond woman who must be his mother.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

For new pretties, they seemed so determined, so focused on their task.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

It turned out to be both prettier and worse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 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

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

Even prettier than she had seemed on stage, as is not always the case.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

“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

“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

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

“I’ve always thought you were the prettiest girl I know.”

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

The setting: a two-story home in Whittier prettied with holiday decorations, pet beds, American flags and a shelf of tchotchkes dedicated to John Wayne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

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

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