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partly

 adverb
     
part‧ly S2 W2
to some degree, but not completely:
The poor weather was partly responsible for the crash.
The company's problems are partly due to bad management.
It is partly because of her sick mother that she hasn't taken the job abroad.
The group is funded partly by the government.
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