pretty well

idiom

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

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Three years on, researchers who worked on the project have published a paper in Science this week that shows their earthquake detection tech worked pretty well – proving its utility in places that don't have seismic stations that can study and deliver local alerts. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 18 July 2025 So, yeah, the Padres and their fans are doing pretty well for themselves. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2025 If the Tigers haul off and win the whole thing this year, Cody Stavenhagen will have a book pretty well ready to go already. Levi Weaver, New York Times, 11 July 2025 His side did pretty well last year to win the majority of their friendly matches, but results this year have not been as great. Neel Shelat, Forbes.com, 9 July 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 22 Jul. 2025.

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