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half-hearted



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Seeing that one figure treated as a museum piece felt like a half-hearted wave to fans who grew up with Chuck.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

But many observers doubt whether this approach will be any more effective than the months of rallies, faculty blockades and half-hearted general strikes.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

Instead, mitigation was uneven and half-hearted, stoking frustration without effectively preventing spread of the disease, and paving the way for the backlash that followed.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025

Players-turned-pundits lined up to kick Diallo in the aftermath - "a rabbit in the headlights", "in the wrong movie", "half-hearted".

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Then gradually, people got bored and the pranks became more half-hearted, until one day it struck me there hadn’t been any for over a week.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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