pretty well

idiom

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

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Investor equity exposures have been high, sell-side 2026 index targets aggressively upbeat, the bull cases on AI and the economy pretty well saturated. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025 According to an interview Vance gave to USA Today, pretty well. Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 16 Dec. 2025 Purdy summed it up pretty well. Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2025 That said, all of those others also work pretty well. Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 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 20 Dec. 2025.

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