partial truth
Example Sentences
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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
His phrase may have been strategically irreverent—“We’ve never skinned anything,” Tim Cook told me in response—but it contained at least a partial truth.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
In our present light, the dictum is known to be, not a universal, but only a partial, truth.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
