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partial

adjective as in incomplete

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Upon being told that her great grandmother had died, she seemed to want clarity and asserted with partial relief, “Great Gran is dead . . . but not squished.”

The chancellor could also offer partial payments, potentially getting smaller for each additional child to reflect that these children might use the same buggy as their siblings or hand-me-down clothes.

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“I have to pull partial quotes and try to make sense of the rest,” one reporter told me.

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The team found a partial skeleton encased in rock that included portions of the lower jaw, vertebrae, and pelvic girdle.

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CHICAGO—Growing up in a low-income household on Chicago’s South Side, Jenae Crockett earned good grades and a partial scholarship to college.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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