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halfway

[haf-wey, hahf-] / ˈhæfˈweɪ, ˈhɑf- /
ADVERB
not complete; in the middle
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Ravi Gupta doesn’t appear to do things halfway.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

It’s only a matter of time before the music plays off one of these seasoned actors halfway through their speech.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Any halfway decent lawyer knows that polygraphs are so unreliable that the results are inadmissible in court.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

Peter, a 51-year-old Kenyan country music fan whose son is in the US Navy, spent 25 years in Dallas, Texas, and only found out where he was going "halfway through the flight".

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

When I come with Mom and Boo, we sit at a table halfway between the bar and the restaurant, because kids aren’t allowed in the bar.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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