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pretty much



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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]
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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.

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"I started having birth pangs pretty much as we started leaving Carlisle," she said.

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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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By censoring or defunding work that mentions sex as a biological variable, research on pretty much all cell biology relevant to human health is now at risk.

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This is pretty much it, I would say: This is the moment we have long feared — or, from another point of view, the moment we’ve all been waiting for.

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