as in partially
in some measure or degree
a physiological process that is incompletely understood at the present time
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Adverb
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Staff was looking for direction as to whether the Village Board would be supportive of having a list of partially eligible projects – mainly landscaping, masonry work, exterior painting, parking lot improvements and window/door repair or replacements.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025 -
The second year is a player option and is partially guaranteed.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
Adverb
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Machado’s 440-foot homer to center in the third inning got the Padres halfway there.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
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Raleigh chalked up those developments to his maturing a little more than halfway into his fourth full major-league season.—
Andrew Destin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2025
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However, apparently Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee helped lead an effort to get rid of the provision, partly on the grounds that if states don’t regulate, and the federal government doesn’t regulate, there won’t be any regulation at all.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Devil Is a Southpaw is partly Muleborn’s novel about he and Echota’s childhood, and partly Muleborn’s adult musings about the ways their imprisonment shaped the boys and their friendships.—
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“Incompletely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompletely. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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