pretty well

idiom

informal
: not completely but mostly
I'm pretty well fed up with him.

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Oklahoma’s season serves to explain pretty well why the SEC was so highly thought-of this season, and why some college basketball analysts have proclaimed that the conference had the best regular season of all-time. Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025 Median home prices have grown fast in this part of Chicagoland, and property taxes are no joke, meaning the people who can afford to live here are, for the most part, pretty well off. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025 The setting is Coney Island, which did pretty well for Sean Baker’s Anora. Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Mar. 2025 And the wedding dress and wedding suit part of the experience went pretty well for both of them. Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pretty well

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“Pretty well.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pretty%20well. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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