partial truth

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Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry, who chairs the committee, said that when it previously asked the senior civil servant about the vetting process "we got a partial truth".

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

“I’m going to tell everyone that I’m a substitute teacher and a Special Olympics coach, which is true; it’s just a partial truth because I don’t want to share everything else that I do.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

He agrees there's partial truth in that, but this flag is a different story.

From US News • Jun. 22, 2015

If the books have a moral, it has to do with the dignity of the search for even partial truth.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2015

To say that war was the cause of these defects is to state at least a partial truth; but it does not exhaust the matter.

From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)