Approaching
Approaching adjective - Being soon to appear or take place.
Pretty much and approaching are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pretty much" instead an adverb "Approaching".
Pretty much
Pretty much adverb - To some degree.
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Synonyms for Pretty much
Approaching and pretty much are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Approaching" instead an adverb phrase "Pretty much".
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Related pairs
- nearly and approaching
- nearly and pretty much
- almost and approaching
- almost and pretty much
- practically and approaching
- practically and pretty much
- about and approaching
- about and pretty much
- all but and approaching
- all but and pretty much
- near and approaching
- near and pretty much
- nearing and approaching
- nearing and pretty much
Both terms in one sentence
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It's pretty much a handwave so David can get something approaching a happy ending.
- MOTHER fans who aren't living in Japan and who want them are pretty much forced to import them from eBay, and they're already approaching the point of being just as expensive as EarthBound itself.
Source: No Export For You / Toys -
Neither has any other Canadian team, much to pretty much the entire country's chagrin (though there's nothing remotely approaching solidarity among Canadian hockey fans; they only want a Canadian team to win as long as it's their team).
Source: Useful Notes / The Stanley Cup
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