partial truth

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Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry, who chairs the committee, said that when it previously asked the senior civil servant about the vetting process "we got a partial truth".

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

“I’m going to tell everyone that I’m a substitute teacher and a Special Olympics coach, which is true; it’s just a partial truth because I don’t want to share everything else that I do.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

They are known as “the wealthiest generation,” a moniker that reveals only a partial truth about baby boomers.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2020

He agrees there's partial truth in that, but this flag is a different story.

From US News • Jun. 22, 2015

Error is almost always partial truth, and so consists in the exaggeration or distortion of one verity by the suppression of another, which qualifies and modifies the former.—Mivart,

From A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron