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“Everyone is involved, the religious, the secular, in villages, in cities, from the top commanders to the porters,” Jabouri told me as we sat in a cavernous, half-furnished house he owns in the Harthiya neighborhood.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2020

We sat in a half-furnished office at the construction site of her charter network’s first high school.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2014

In a green living room, still only half-furnished, the Senator sank tiredly into a big red chair, but the time to relax was not yet.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Barbra's half-furnished penthouse, Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait in three sittings, while "interior decorators were coming in by the droves."

From Time Magazine Archive

But I like the place, and feel loth to return to Florence from this half-furnished villa and stone floors.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir