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How to use the word Pretty in a Sentence?

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Some things are better than being pretty. Sometimes imperfection is the real beauty indeed. No veil, no editing, just you. The real you.

– Christen Kuikoua

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For me, the biggest challenge is the lack of sleep. Not the giving up of food and drink – your body adjusts pretty quickly to that – but the lack of sleep and the interrupted sleep makes it much more challenging.

– Mazen Basrawi

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1 year ago

This harness is pretty tight, i have been hung up on my genitals for far too long, and I’m starting to feel like a freaking Republican lawmaker!

– Molly Kearney

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1 year ago

If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic, but the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we’re pretty much even, and that’s not a good place to be.

– Bonnie Baxter

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1 year ago

All of the crops are completely flooded and ruined, it takes a lot of jobs for people. That’s a lot of food that we provide for up and down California and all around the nation. It’s pretty scary.

– Martina Sealy

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1 year ago

It’s a pretty big deal, this is really going to set the tone for the rest of the decade and into the 2030s in terms of what this administration is looking for the auto industry to do when it comes to decarbonizing and ultimately electrifying.

– Thomas Boylan

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1 year ago

The Good Friday Agreement is certainly one of those things where you can get real bipartisan buy-in in Washington, believe me, that’s a pretty unusual thing.

– Liam Kennedy

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1 year ago

We’re watching it pretty closely.

– Michael Reynolds

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1 year ago

The interest of the nones will soon outweigh those of the religious right in just a matter of years, nones are going to vote as a bloc and they’re going to be pretty powerful. White evangelicals will eventually be eclipsed by the unaffiliated.

– Tina Wray

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1 year ago

Nones are going to vote as a bloc and they’re going to be pretty powerful. White evangelicals will eventually be eclipsed by the unaffiliated.

– Tina Wray

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1 year ago

We had a pretty good foundation of what to expect out of each other, out of our relationship and out of our lives. So the rest was easy after that, with that small hiccup in the middle.

– Trail Aaron

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1 year ago

I mean, Mr. Church was pretty careful in what he could say and what he couldn’t say. And the thing that he didn’t say is, ‘If your clients continue to make referrals you don’t have to worry that they could face enforcement action,’ right? He didn’t say that, perhaps (we) get to a point where the emergency is gone. But right now, I still have a situation where I have doctors who need to tell patients what their options are and are not sure if they can do a complete, accurate and fair job of doing that without facing personal risk.

– Peter Neiman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it is pretty clear. I am a 60-year-old White woman, and they are two young Black men.

– Gloria Johnson

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1 year ago

When all the numbers are crunched, 2022 is going to be a flat year for CEO pay, certain industries will continue to go up, certain other industries will take a beating. But I think overall you’ll see pretty flat numbers because it wasn’t a good year for bonuses.

– James Reda

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1 year ago

We measure snowpack wall-to-wall over mountains from aircraft using lasers and spectrometers, from that information, we can then know the full distribution of how much water there is in a mountain snowpack and also how fast it’s going to melt. That’s allowed us then to change forecast errors from being pretty large to very small and really dramatically changed water management in the west.

– Tom Painter

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1 year ago

We haven’t seen a mainstream app like this trying to escalate their privileges to gain access to things that they’re not supposed to gain access to, this is highly unusual, and it is pretty damning for Pinduoduo.

– Mikko Hyppönen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The three things that every school leader better pay a lot of attention to is we have limited time, energy and budget for safety, so we can’t afford to waste any of that. We can’t spend our budget or training time on something that we don’t have pretty good evidence actually bears fruit. With the caution that nothing’s going to be 100 percent. This idea that we’re gonna stop all school shootings; there’s just, no country has been able to do that.

– Michael Dorn

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1 year ago

Attacks, through state legislatures, on the ballot measure process have been pretty consistent and pretty aggressive for the last several (election) cycles.

– Kelly Hall

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1 year ago

I think what they did was technically very challenging, particularly where they were trying to (observe) activity from multiple neurons in three different areas at once, using this sort of fiber microscopes. That’s a pretty state of the art thing.

– Loren Frank

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1 year ago

I’m always pleased that they were on the Laconia and that they had that experience and that they were able to share that legacy. And here 100 years later, we’re still talking about it. I think that’s pretty marvelous.

– Stephanie Wilds

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1 year ago

We’re observing a pretty special situation.

– Manuela Brunner

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1 year ago

We wanted to illustrate how these programs are being used by ordinary Americans in the United States, all of these programs, I think, are pretty unique in modern day immigration policy in that they allow the American public to interact with the immigration system in a way that people otherwise would n’t. I think our intervenors demonstrate the breadth and range of types of people who can and want to engage with the immigration system.

– Esther Sung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve gotten quite used to seeing a lot of big change on Jupiter. We see the clouds change color, we see storms coming, we’ve been watching the Great Red Spot — I would love to see a big storm outbreak on Uranus, because that’s one of the few places where we don’t tend to see that very much, if we saw a big storm develop on Uranus (using Hubble), I’d be pretty excited.

– Amy Simon

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1 year ago

It’s a pretty unbroken streak.

– Geoffrey Kabaservice

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1 year ago

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