make partial

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The government agreed to use $4.65 billion in contingency funds to make partial payments, but warned it could take several weeks or months for states to deliver benefits to recipients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

So far, her family has been able to make partial payments to the utility, but she fears what will happen if their electricity gets cut off, as has happened to some of her neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

The governor’s authority to make partial vetoes does not extend into meddling with the fine print so minutely, the court found.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2021

Both of the new results make partial progress toward a proof of the full conjecture.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2018

But she could make partial reparation to the living at least, and when she came back with the candles there was resolve in her face.

From Thurston of Orchard Valley by Dunton, W. Herbert