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half-finished

British  

adjective

  1. only partially completed

    a half-finished jigsaw puzzle

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None of this prevents “Champagne Problems” from being as sticky as a half-finished candy cane.

From The Wall Street Journal

For sanity’s sake, I focus on one recipe at a time — bring it to the point of simmering, then move on — rather than juggling three half-finished soups and risking culinary chaos.

From Salon

The metaphor feels almost too obvious, the iron-and-brick facade of a half-finished, $200-million football palace looming over Howard Jones Field.

From Los Angeles Times

The workshop itself offers a glimpse of the delicate craftmanship it takes to build a piano - specialist tools line the walls and two half-finished pianos expose a complicated internal network of strings and hammers.

From BBC

Another customer, Grant Kilpatrick, told BBC Scotland News that McMaster left him with a half-finished extension and was owed between £15,000 and £20,000.

From BBC