a portion
Example Sentences
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Although it's only selling a portion of the company to the likes of us, the price of the shares Elon Musk is selling means we can calculate the price tag of the whole company.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Chief among those is Meta AI, its chatbot which is now attempting to monetize a portion of the 3.5 billion daily users across the whole of Meta’s platform base.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
In video clips of a portion of the incident, some of the audience is heard cheering and clapping while others sit stone-faced in their seats, and many are seen getting up and leaving.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
In dissent, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, said the Mississippi state courts had concluded that Pitchford’s trial team had forfeited a portion of their argument about racially discriminatory jury selection.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
She helped herself to a portion of the ants swarming the outside of the tree, looking for something sweet.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
