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Pretty in Pink
Pretty in Pink is a 1986 Paramount teen romance written by John Hughes, directed by Howard Deutch, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, and Jon Cryer; its Andie-ends-with-Duckie original ending was reshot after test audiences.
Pretty Lethal
Pretty Lethal, formerly Ballerina Overdrive, is a 2026 Prime Video action thriller directed by Vicky Jewson, starring Uma Thurman and Maddie Ziegler, about five ballerinas fighting gangsters with ballet-fu choreography.
Pretty Lights
Pretty Lights is the electronic music project of Derek Vincent Smith, a Denver, Colorado producer who built a festival following with free albums and live soul sampling.
Pretty Little Baby (Connie Francis song)
Pretty Little Baby: 1962 Connie Francis song by Don Stirling and Bill Nauman, an album track never released as a US single, which became TikTok's top global song of 2025.
Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars is Sara Shepard's young adult mystery series (16 books, 2006–2014, HarperTeen) and the ABC Family/Freeform TV adaptation (2010–2017, 7 seasons, 160 episodes), following Spencer, Aria, Hanna, and Emily tormented by "A" after Alison DiLaurentis vanishes.
Pretty Little Liars (2022 TV series)
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022), retitled Summer School for season 2, is an HBO Max slasher mystery drama by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Lindsay Calhoon Bring, set in Millwood, Pennsylvania, canceled in 2024 after 18 episodes.
Pretty Little Liars (book series)
Pretty Little Liars book series by Sara Shepard: 16 young adult thriller novels (2006-2014) plus two companions, about Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily blackmailed by 'A' in Rosewood after Alison's disappearance; basis of the ABC Family show.
Pretty Little Liars season 5
Pretty Little Liars season 5 (2014-2015): 25-episode ABC Family/Freeform run of the teen mystery drama based on Sara Shepard's novels, covering Alison DiLaurentis's return, Mona's apparent murder, Alison's trial, and the 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' finale.
Pretty Little Liars season 7
Pretty Little Liars season 7 (2016–2017) is the final 20-episode Freeform season, split into 7A/7B, built around the Liar's Lament game and ending with the Alex Drake A.D. twin reveal.
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists is a 2019 Freeform spin-off and sequel to Pretty Little Liars, loosely based on Sara Shepard's The Perfectionists novels. Created by I. Marlene King, set at Beacon Heights University, it starred Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish and was canceled after one 10-episode season.
Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl
Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl is an American independent animated web series created by Kiana Khansmith. It follows a 15-year-old magical girl who wants an ordinary life.
Pretty privilege
Pretty privilege, studied academically as the beauty premium or lookism, is the systematic economic and social advantage of physically attractive people: roughly 20 percent higher earnings, promotion advantage, and task-dependent hiring bias driven partly by statistical discrimination.
Pretty Ricky
Pretty Ricky: Miami R&B-rap quartet (Spectacular, Baby Blue, Slick 'Em, Pleasure P) formed 1997 as The Maverix; albums Bluestars (2005) and chart-topping Late Night Special (2007); platinum "Grind With Me" and "On the Hotline"; won 2026 B2K VERZUZ fan vote 90-10.
Pretty Smart
Pretty Smart: Netflix multi-camera sitcom created by Jack Dolgen and Doug Mand, starring Emily Osment as Harvard intellectual Chelsea; premiered October 8, 2021, 10 episodes, canceled April 2022 after one season.
Pretty Things
The Pretty Things: English rock band formed 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, also known as Electric Banana; founded by ex-Rolling Stone Dick Taylor and Phil May; released S.F. Sorrow (1968), credited as the first rock opera.
Pretty Ugly (Zara Larsson song)
Pretty Ugly is a 2025 song by Swedish singer Zara Larsson, also known from its JT remix on Midnight Sun: Girls Trip. Released April 25, 2025 on Sommer House/Epic as the lead single of Midnight Sun, written with MNEK, Margo XS and Helena Gao; peaked at number 14 in Sweden.
Pretty Ugly People
Pretty Ugly People is a 2008 American comedy-drama, Tate Taylor's feature debut, starring Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, and Octavia Spencer. Lucy lures college friends to Montana under false pretenses after gastric bypass; IMDb 5.0/10, RT 25%.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Lepa sela lepo gore) is a 1996 Serbian war drama by Srđan Dragojević about Serb soldiers trapped in a Bosnian tunnel, based on a true 1992 incident, Serbia's 1996 Oscar candidate.
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere as a sex worker and a businessman who fall in love.
Pretty. Odd.
Pretty. Odd. (2008) is Panic! At The Disco's second album, a Beatles- and Beach Boys-inspired psychedelic pop record produced by Rob Mathes, released without the band's exclamation point, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and later certified platinum.
PrettyLittleThing
PrettyLittleThing, also known as PLT, is a British online fast-fashion retailer founded in Manchester in 2012 by brothers Adam and Umar Kamani and owned by Debenhams Group.
PrettyMuch
PrettyMuch (PRETTYMUCH, PM) was an American-Canadian boy band formed in Los Angeles in 2016 by Simon Cowell; members Arreaga, Honoret, Porter, Mara, and Kuwonu debuted in 2017 with "Would You Mind" and announced an indefinite hiatus in October 2023.
Pretzel
Pretzel (German Brezel/Brezn): knotted alkaline-dipped bread from southern Germany; soft lye bread or hard snack; 3–5% NaOH bath, Bavarian vs Swabian styles, EU-protected Bayerische Breze, $2.9B US market.
Pretzel Logic
Pretzel Logic (1974) is Steely Dan's third studio album, produced by Gary Katz at the Village Recorder. It reached No. 8 in the US on the strength of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", was NME's Album of the Year, and was the last album by Steely Dan as a formal touring band.
Pretzel sticks
Pretzel sticks: straight-rod form of hard pretzel, extruded, lye-dipped (1.25% NaOH, 90-93°C), baked; Pennsylvania-centered US industry, $2.75B category, 1,240 mg sodium per 100 g.
PREVAIL trial
PREVAIL (NCT01212991, MDV3100-03): phase 3 trial of enzalutamide 160 mg vs placebo in 1,717 chemotherapy-naive men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer; improved rPFS (HR 0.32) and overall survival (HR 0.71 interim, 0.83 at 5 years).
Prevailing winds
A prevailing wind is the direction from which wind blows most often at a place over a period, produced by global circulation, the Coriolis effect, and local factors like sea breezes.
Prevalence
Prevalence is an epidemiological measure of how many people in a population have a disease at a given time, including both new and existing cases.
Prevalence of circumcision
The prevalence of circumcision, also called circumcision worldwide, is about 38.7% of males aged 15 and older in 2016, varying mainly with religion and region.
Prevalence of rabies
The prevalence of rabies describes how widely the viral disease occurs worldwide: about 59,000 people die each year across more than 150 countries, 95% of them in Africa and Asia.