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half-completed

adjective

  1. (of a job, task, project, etc) only partially completed

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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When Pynchon’s jacket summary of this tale of two cities first surfaced six months ago, cynics could be forgiven for wondering whether an 88-year-old man, hearing time’s winged chariot idling at the curb, hadn’t just taken two half-completed works in progress and spot-welded them together.

Behind us was a half-completed mural.

"While my brothers were alive, I was free to study. But now they are gone; no one is here to support me. My lessons are left half-completed."

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She had two half-completed pots sitting on wooden plates to dry.

By 1945, the fascist regime had been toppled, Mussolini had been executed — his body hung upside down in public — and EUR was only half-completed, sealed off and all but abandoned.

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