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pretty much
Idioms and Phrases
Almost, nearly, approximately, as in Our homework was pretty much finished . This adverbial usage differs from the use of pretty for “considerable” (as in pretty penny ). [c. 1800]Example Sentences
At some point, it looked like the deal was pretty much done - but then came the Covid-19 pandemic and suddenly it fell through.
The thing to remember about the Kentucky Derby, and pretty much every race, is the best horse doesn’t always win.
I always wanted to tour and I was very lucky that I was doing “Ted Lasso” so regularly and that was taking up pretty much all of my year.
"I started having birth pangs pretty much as we started leaving Carlisle," she said.
She wasn't lacking oomph this time, arguing the Supreme Court had vindicated what she had long argued, and pretty much saying "I told you so" to the Labour Party.
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