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in part

ADVERB
partially
Synonyms
STRONGEST
moderately partly somewhat
WEAK
by degrees by installments fractionally halfway in some measure little by little not wholly piece by piece piecemeal to a certain degree to a certain extent
Antonyms
WEAK
completely totally wholly
ADVERB
partly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
at least partially slightly somewhat
WEAK
at best at most at worst bit by bit by degrees carelessly halfway in a general way in bits and pieces in some measure in some ways inadequately incompletely insufficiently little by little measurably not entirely not fully not strictly speaking not wholly notably noticeably piece by piece piecemeal relatively so far as possible to a certain degree to a certain extent up to a certain point within limits
Antonyms
WEAK
completely totally wholly
ADVERB
somewhat
Synonyms
STRONGEST
a little considerably fairly far kind of moderately partially pretty quite rather significantly slightly
WEAK
adequately bearably incompletely insignificantly more or less not much ratherish some something sort of to a degree tolerably well
Antonyms
STRONGEST
little
WEAK
not at all

Example Sentences

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Among the excluded markets are Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru, where the company held clinical trials that contributed to the drug’s development, in part because HIV incidence was high in those countries.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Last semester, the college suspended its campus newspaper, the Defender, which published for 80 years, in part because not enough students had taken the course required to work on the paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants R01DK126721 and R01CA275864.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

Potash, the potassium-rich component of fertilizers, has also been in short supply in recent years, in part because of economic sanctions on Belarus and Russia, which are major potash producers.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

But Cape York Aborigines did not adopt agriculture, in part because what they saw of it on Muralug Island was so watered-down.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond