make partial

Example Sentences

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The government agreed to use $4.65 billion in contingency funds to make partial payments, but warned it could take several weeks or months for states to deliver benefits to recipients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

So far, her family has been able to make partial payments to the utility, but she fears what will happen if their electricity gets cut off, as has happened to some of her neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

It would then head to the Senate and Assembly for votes next week, before going to Evers who can sign it, veto it or make partial vetoes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Both of the new results make partial progress toward a proof of the full conjecture.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2018

And do not think so unhandsomely of your mother, as to fear that she would make partial constructions against me.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel