pretty much

1. 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

Then again, so did pretty much everything — land, a gallon of gasoline, a bottle of whiskey, French francs, and so on.

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She said: "The plastic surgeon described it as like magic... I've had a few operations but that was pretty much the scariest thing I've ever been through."

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"This can be felt pretty much across the board," says Bernie Hart, vice president of business development at Flexport, a logistics and customs business.

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In her final films, including “Summer Camp” and the “Book Club” franchise, Keaton pretty much only played variations of herself, providing reason enough to watch.

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The problem is that pretty much every other way to measure income growth over that time shows a more robust picture.

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