pretty much

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Ahead of Saturday’s game, the Bruins stayed in a hotel together and had walk-throughs on the field as well as meetings and pretty much anything else they could do to simulate a game.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2026

Two of the world’s largest oilfield-services companies just said what pretty much no one in America wants to hear.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

And life’s building blocks—nucleobases, amino acids, hydrocarbons—are pretty much everywhere we look.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“Carney can pretty much ride roughshod now on the second pipeline and do it in two years,” Hampson says.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

Dad and I hadn’t really spoken since my whole Dr. Doris tantrum, and I knew he was pretty much handing me a gift-wrapped chance to make things better.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller