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The Turbo Electric brings a pretty classy chassis to the party: Porsche’s Active Suspension Management and Active Ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

“That’s silly. Don’t you want to see at all the pretty, shiny things inside?”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Somehow, they carried the authority of middle pretties without the firm jaw, the subtly lined eyes, or the elegant clothing.

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

I've kept my little plant in its plastic pot for too long, and this will look so much prettier.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

“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

Her hair was short and curly and she had the biggest, prettiest, shyest eyes he’d ever seen.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

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