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Our delivery from set-pieces was not great either, but in open play the service from the wingers was pretty much non-existent.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
He said "pretty much all our indicators are in a critical state", including calls to emergency medical services, calls to the fire brigade, ER admissions, and deaths, he told local TV.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
They are wary of a technology more employers are embracing; Masse said his friends “are all pretty much in the same boat as me — they are all pretty anti-AI.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026
He describes it as them “calling and having lots of little questions and points about pretty much everything that gets written about her.”
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026
Greg Lippmann watched his counterparts at Goldman Sachs find and exploit someone else’s willingness to sell huge amounts of cheap insurance on subprime mortgage bonds and pretty much instantly guessed the seller’s identity.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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