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The phrase "a pretty wise" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who possesses a considerable amount of wisdom, but the adjective "pretty" is not commonly used with "wise" in this context.
Example: "She is a pretty wise person for her age, often giving advice that surprises her elders."
Alternatives: "quite wise" or "fairly wise".
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He's a pretty wise guy.
He's a pretty wise man.
As everyone knows he was seen as a pretty wise man".
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"If a man can become a billionaire without having to work that hard for it, he's evidently a pretty smart man, money-wise, and the United States has to be run as a business".
That means Kim — a man Trump has already called a "pretty smart cookie" — might be wise to Trump's tactics if the two ever meet.
Why then, even with the most whizz-bang, double-blind, placebo controlled studies of cognitive behavioral strategies assisting us in our self-change plans, a veritable library of well-researched, and pretty wise popular and academic books on the topic, do we still find it so incredibly hard to put our resolutions into action?
He's an older, old-school guy that's pretty wise, but I don't know.
"You're pretty wise, ain't yuh?" "Oh, I don't know," I says.
The Enlightenment ideas of our country's founding have turned out to be pretty wise ones.
In retrospect, realists who were skeptical of the invasion, like Brent Scowcroft and Samuel Huntington, are looking pretty wise.
"After he went through the logic, it seemed pretty wise to me," Mr. Lawrence said.
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