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half

[haf] / hæf /


NOUN
one of two equal parts of a whole
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During the fiercest fighting of the war with Iran, as many as half the attacks on Saudi Arabia came from inside Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It accelerated from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under a second, with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk saying it will eventually be able to travel as fast as half the speed of sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

In about half of the years since 2015, the first storm arrived after 1 November.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

In the first half of this year, the strongest region for sales growth for Hermès was in the Americas, where revenue grew at 15%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

She and her husband lived about a mile and a half from the Beje, outside the cramped old center of the city.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“You could have folded a picture of them, and the two halves would’ve matched,” Herzog writes.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The data pointed to “both halves of the Fed’s problem at once,” said Vincent Ahn, a portfolio manager at SLW Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dresser wanted a Dutch door — one where both the top and bottom halves swing open independently — attached to their office space, where they sometimes isolate fosters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A few minutes after liftoff, its two halves will separate and fall away, allowing Roman to continue its journey into space.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then I cut the halves with scissors and sweep them into the trash, sign onto the computer, and start typing.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven


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