Partly

/ˈpɑɹtli/ · adverb

Meaning

In part, or to some degree, but not completely..

Example Sentences

They had partly finished the house, so they could move in before winter.

The car was partly visible in the garage.

Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.

Clara's cultural cache soon gave way to Betty Boop, the iconic cartoon flapper created partly in her image by animator Grim Natwick.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

Will the great and mighty United States of America, the oldest democracy in the world, celebrating its 250th birthday this July, be demoted to “partly free”? I don’t know. But the mere fact that we even have to ask this question is chilling.

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