halfway through

phrase

: when half finished : at the middle point (of)
The teacher stopped the movie halfway through.
We left halfway through the lecture.
We're about halfway through the project.

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The coach still can't find a breakthrough victory nearly halfway through his fifth season in charge despite a wealth of talent. — ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026 What happens if a payment fails halfway through a transaction? — Yevgeni Tsirulnik, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Sheik, who also supplied lyrics, recalled only getting halfway through the book before throwing it across the room as a Brown University student. — Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 Llínas mugs the camera for laugh lines in the narration, rattles off a comically long list of Borges’ lovers, reveals halfway through that the score has been played, in part, off a toy xylophone. — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for halfway through

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“Halfway through.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halfway%20through. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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