as in pretty
to some degree or extent
you've been acting sort of funny all week
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Adverb
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The entire operation gets support from a pretty unique group.—
John Lauritsen,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
By pretty much every metric — student loan debt, credit scores, rates of homeownership — those who left were in worse financial shape than their neighbors, prompting them to leave for a better economic climate.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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While an annoyance at times for the crew, it's been a relatively minor issue given the technical challenges of safely flying to the moon and back.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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That puts them at the forefront of an asset class that is looking uncertain, although their overall exposure is still relatively small compared to their vast holdings.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Virtue isn’t quite like other hair care brands.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The Service’s regional headquarters will vanish, along with most of its research facilities and experimental forests—and also quite likely the sense of mission that has animated the agency for more than a century.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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While tech companies have attempted to solve online fit issues since the 2010s, the rapid development of generative AI has finally made these applications good enough to meaningfully impact retailers' bottom lines.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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In this century, Hoboken’s disasters have been vivid enough to make their own news.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Meta suggested that Kaley’s mental-health struggles were attributable not to social-media addiction but, rather, to her mother’s emotional and physical abuse and neglect, and that Kaley’s social-media use was not the source of her troubles but a way to cope with them.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Showing an new indie film in theaters rather than taking the more common route of going directly to a streaming service or video on demand or even the regional film festival circuit is a rather radical move these days.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Flattening the curve—making bad floods somewhat less bad—feels achievable.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Getting back into a somewhat normal routine of starting once every five, or in this case, six days, is also a benefit.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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There are billions of galaxies in the universe and each has billions of stars, so the likelihood life developed elsewhere is fairly high, according to University of Michigan Astronomy Professor Edwin Bergin, who teaches about looking for life elsewhere.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Saturday is the better day to get outside, as the chance for rain is fairly low.—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Sort of.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sort%20of. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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