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be partial

verb as in discriminate

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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.

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I may be partial, but I could eat just a pan of that topping and be content.

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And yet, even if this effort means that some inexperienced or sick men aren’t called up, it won’t change the Kremlin’s motives for mobilizing or fix the Russian military’s inefficiencies — both factors that require the mobilization to be “partial” on paper only.

“They said that there would be partial mobilization, but it turns out that they take everyone,” she was quoted as saying.

“They said that there would be partial mobilization, but it turns out that they are taking everyone.”

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

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