be partial
Example Sentences
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For months, he had trouble sleeping due to what turned out to be partial seizures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
This data may be partial or incorrect because of spoofing.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025
“They said that there would be partial mobilization, but it turns out that they take everyone,” she was quoted as saying.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022
"You're always going to be partial to the music that really defined the most impressionable parts of your life."
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2022
The trouble is that the weakling must be partial; the work of one proving dank and depressing; of another, cheap and vulgar; of a third, epileptically sensual; of a fourth, sourly ascetic.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis