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  • r  in part; in some degree; not wholly
    I felt partly to blame

  • This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer.
  • That story, by Parfitt's estimation, is partly true, partly not.
  • All this is partly to make it seem more exciting and partly because running a restaurant out of a house isn't particularly legal.
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  • Donald Kohn in International Herald Tribune
    Kohn noted that "the increased turbulence of recent weeks partly reversed some of the improvement in market functioning over the late part of September and in October."
  • Barack Obama in Chicago Sun-Times
    The missed opportunity is partly a chance to get to the quarters and the matchup with Uruguay, but it's also a missed opportunity to stay in the American public's eyes for another four, five, six days, maybe 10 days, when interest is at an all-time... Sunil Gulati http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Gulati&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrBNe5h3N-x1iotgs55KGnH8KfUg The Associated Press http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iKfRjRGJeXn-sKx2E7srNpE6nPbgD9GKBC9O0&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEyH-y_8amStNrLlGYbAP8jaOz9Qg Jun 28, 2010 72495 96979 partly Last week, Obama said, I'm hesitant to make the Olympics a site of political protest because I think it's partly about bringing the world together" and Monday in a statement did not address the proposal to boycott the opening ceremony.

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