pretty well

idiom

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

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Heretic narrowly passed the light-hearted palate cleanser The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, which roughly made about $9.5 million this weekend but still did pretty well and could possibly break even by next weekend. Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024 The next president will nonetheless inherit an economy that is working pretty well both for households and businesses, Axios' Neil Irwin notes. Axios, 2 Nov. 2024 By anyone’s standards, Cambridge is already doing pretty well. Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 Most of the data suggests that the U.S. economy is doing pretty well—employers added a surprising 254,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 4.1%. Alana Semuels, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024 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 29 Nov. 2024.

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