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It just so happened that in the intervening 25 minutes, there had been no more rain, so the track was pretty dry by the time the race started.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"I have pretty much thrown in the towel on classic writing assignments for lower-level classes," Paustian told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Star quarterback Patrick Mahomes said “it’d be pretty cool” if Hill came back to Kansas City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

“It’s pretty clear Congress intended it to be cash donations going in,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Well, the theme was a pretty sharp idea itself. I’m always game to show off all things Chinese and shine a spotlight on the culture.”

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

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

They had an unfamiliar confidence and surety, like David’s, completely different from the new pretties she and Peris had always made fun of.

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

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

The Spider: “The prettier the spider, the more poisonous it is.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

“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

The prettiest team at the tournament was learning to win ugly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

It’s tiny, but the pastel wallpaper, canopy bed, and twinkly lights make it the prettiest room in the house.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

When the jacarandas bloomed, that initial burst of color — tiny, bright flowers seemingly as numerous as the stars — prettied the neighborhood like nothing I had ever seen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

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

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

“You’ll have to tell me all about it But don’t you dare tell anyone else. Not yet. Everyone’s going to be so intrigued. We can throw a big party when you get yourself prettied up.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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