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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Lawyers for the Trump administration and Washington, D.C., reached an agreement Friday to partially scale back U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's order placing the city's police force under federal control.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025 -
American Airlines wants to fly more on the West Coast and in the Pacific, partially through a codeshare with Alaska Airlines, but the carrier appears not to want the flying to be done by its own pilots.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Pike gestured to a few feet of curb near the entrance to an alley, about halfway down the 2100 block of North St. Louis Avenue.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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Most give up halfway, frightened by the warnings of those below.—
Sudhir Gupta,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But the dramatic exit seems to be part of a bit, part attention-grabbing and partly born out of the difficulty of wrangling a bunch of newly famous and increasingly wealthy influencers in the same place at the same time.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
21 Aug. 2025
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Wheeler and Smith arranged and partly financed a car for Guthrie to drive, as well as a crew chief to lean on and a female team owner from Charlotte to help pay the bills.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Incompletely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompletely. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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