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in part

in part prepositional phrase: to an extent; not fully.

Prepositional phrase

  1. To an extent; not fully.
    • The collision was in part my fault: I was starting to fall asleep at the wheel.
    • Cervicitis was initially described >30 years ago as “the ignored counterpart of urethritis in men”, most likely because the 2 syndromes share known etiologies. However, cervicitis differs from male urethritis in that low-grade signs of infection more often go unnoticed, in part due to the need for...2017 July 15, Harold C Wiesenfeld, Lisa E Manhart, “Mycoplasma genitalium in Women: Current Knowledge and Research Priorities for This Recently Emerged Pathogen”, in The Journal of Infectious...

Questions about in part

What does in part mean?
In part means to an extent; not fully.
What part of speech is in part?
In part is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in part in the dictionary

  1. in otherwords
  2. in pairs
  3. in pampers
  4. in parallel
  5. in pari materia
  6. in part
  7. in partibus infidelium
  8. in particular
  9. in passing
  10. in peace
  11. in perpetuity

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