be partial
Example Sentences
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Energy and energy-related equities can be partial hedges as oil prices and freight rates climb, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
There will be partial restrictions on travellers from another seven countries, including Cuban and Venezuelan nationals.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025
He's a Montana man who longs for his ranch, so it follows that he'd be partial to home-cooked meals prepared with natural-as-possible ingredients.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023
A sentence stating that The Washington Post doesn’t recognize brain death as a clear marker of death has also been updated to clarify that brain death can be partial.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022
For, I could never bring myself to believe, that nature, common parent of all, should be partial to any of her children.
From Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age by Cornaro, Luigi
