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"pretty much understand" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually means that a person understands something to a large degree, but without completely understanding it. For example, "I've read through the instructions, and I pretty much understand how to set up the machine."
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"I pretty much understand their position.
I pretty much understand that that's how life is as a Knick.
If you apply yourself at something more than a casual level to his nontechnical, layman-friendly prose, you can pretty much understand what he means even when the concepts get, as it were, pretty stratospheric.
No matter what language you speak, you can pretty much understand what an emoji means.
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"That's a protocol that is pretty much understood around the world".
According to Leonard, since Darwin's time, biologists have pretty much understood that all traits are essentially reproductive traits in some way or another.
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"It's pretty much understood that it's not the kid's money, so a person with a larger family can give more," he said.
Villalobos said that when he and his colleagues find out an undocumented client has been arrested, "it's pretty much understood" that they'll end up in an ICE detention center.
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