as in partially
in some measure or degree
you're only partly right
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Recent Examples of partly
This is partly due to concerns about its effectiveness and potential impacts on the animals.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Farther south, across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula, skies should be partly to mostly sunny.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
That’s partly due to the constraints of the U.S. health care system.
—Eleanor Rivera, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
As the name suggests, this time around the moon will only partly cover the sun, giving it a crescent shape, according to NASA.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Farther south, across Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula, skies should be partly to mostly sunny.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
That’s partly due to the constraints of the U.S. health care system.
—Eleanor Rivera, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
As the name suggests, this time around the moon will only partly cover the sun, giving it a crescent shape, according to NASA.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Partly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partly. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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