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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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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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How to use pretty much in a sentence

Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.
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For his part though, the dude with the inner grandma is pretty much just looking ahead.
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Hitch knows damn well that Redford gets pretty much anything he wants.
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The red flashes were breaking out like a bunch of firecrackers, and with pretty much the same sound.
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They allowed him to have all the money he wished to spend, and permitted him to do pretty much as he pleased about everything.
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"Things happened pretty much as people foresaw back in 1981," she said.
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And as Barker hates me pretty much as he seems inclined to hate you, we are in the same box.
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I have described in these lines pretty much all that a superficial observer would have noted when he looked into the room.
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