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half-empty

adjective

  1. (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity

“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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The couple’s bedroom/performance space features a pot-leaf wall tapestry, a pink pillow with the words Bimbo Doll written in the Barbie font, and a half-empty bottle of KY.

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I feel like I'm going into the match with the tank half-empty.

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In the early 2000s, downtown’s half-empty commercial buildings began to be made over as lofts, high-end apartments and bistros, and Skid Row came under enormous pressure from the powerful real estate and business elites of the Central City Assn., and the smaller Central City East Business Improvement District’s commercial property owners, which saw homeless people as a roadblock to redevelopment.

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The eight-top table for solo travelers was half-empty, and it quickly became apparent that none of us had anything in common.

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On Friday, for the first time in a non-pandemic environment, the draft was conducted semi-remotely, with the top 93 draft-eligible players and their families filling some of the seats in the half-empty Peacock Theater in Los Angeles while team representatives made their selections from their home markets.

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