as in partially
in some measure or degree
that was a halfway decent performance of a difficult piece
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as in incomplete
lacking some necessary part
when halfway measures, such as posting signs, failed to keep people off the property, a fence was erected
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as in middle
occupying a position equally distant from the ends or extremes
by the time she had reached the halfway point, she was ready to quit the marathon
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Recent Examples of halfway
Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Bitcoin rebound Bitcoin, meanwhile, steadied following a weekslong plunge that sent it more than halfway below its record price set in October.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Saint Thomas More School in Decatur is marking its 100th day of school, a fun milestone that marks the halfway point of the school year.
—Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
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Bitcoin, meanwhile, steadied following a weekslong plunge that had sent it more than halfway below its record price set in October.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Bitcoin rebound Bitcoin, meanwhile, steadied following a weekslong plunge that sent it more than halfway below its record price set in October.
—CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
In the story, our devices become a gateway to another world — or, rather, a halfway point between our universe and the afterlife.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Saint Thomas More School in Decatur is marking its 100th day of school, a fun milestone that marks the halfway point of the school year.
—Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfway
Adverb
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Periodically, curb lanes were only partially cleared, and adequate radiuses were mostly ignored.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
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Whether the weakness in hiring will normalize has partially driven the divide among Federal Reserve officials on whether to continue cutting rates.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Those narratives are emotionally satisfying — and incomplete.—
Mark Mitchell,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The problem is the AI models that help come up with drug candidates are still very inaccurate, largely because the data used to train these models is sparse and incomplete.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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And the truth is obviously somewhere in the middle, right?—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2026
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Kayley finished first among the pool of middle and high school contestants in Peters’ 50th Congressional District, which includes La Jolla.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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McRae half-responded to the controversy on her own Instagram Story.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2026
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They can be laid flat or half-buried to form a solid border edge.—
Peg Aloi,
The Spruce,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The council also approved the appointment of Josiah Ben-Oni Graham to fill a partial-term vacancy that expires in November.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2026
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But as the title character and a partial avatar for Williamson — who had similarly spent his own teen years dreamily pining and aspiring to be a filmmaker — Dawson was the boy-next-door pillar around which the show orbited.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The actual costs for things such as meat, dairy, produce, frozen foods and cleaning products were compared to the state's median household income to determine where people spend the most.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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Because of that, said Burton, the bill classifies lot rental fees as a homeownership activity, meaning that mobile home owners making less than 140% of area median income — $123,900 for a family of four in Miami-Dade County — could qualify for up to six months of lot rental assistance.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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His joy was partly a measure of his long-running preoccupation with the future of Europe, where the broader culture has been steadily marching away from Christianity.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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That is partly by design, hewing to a structure that mirrors Evans’ own process of addiction and grief.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
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The opinion noted that attorneys did not argue that Idaho’s system of public schools was deficient, or that the tax credit program would make it so.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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Those who are deficient in magnesium are more likely to have anemia.—
Jessica Swirble,
Verywell Health,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Halfway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfway. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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