a portion
Example Sentences
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Although it's only selling a portion of the company to the likes of us, the price of the shares Elon Musk is selling means we can calculate the price tag of the whole company.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
If we were to leave, we would lose a portion of our buy-in — about $80,000.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
Chief among those is Meta AI, its chatbot which is now attempting to monetize a portion of the 3.5 billion daily users across the whole of Meta’s platform base.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said the Mississippi state courts had concluded that Pitchford’s trial team had forfeited a portion of their argument about racially discriminatory jury selection.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
He felt he had thoroughly tasted and ejected a portion of sorrow, a portion of misery during those past times, that he had consumed them up to a point of despair and death.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
