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half-made

  • a word derived from made.
    made
    verb
    simple past tense and past participle of make.

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The dim home around them is scattered, too, with a half-made meal of bread and beetroot neglected near the sink.

From Seattle Times Apr. 9, 2022

His writings offer a personal notion of history as a series of tragic and haphazard upheavals, leaving "half-made" developing worlds in their wake.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2018

Many of the scenes reveal back-room deceit, like a half-made papier-mâché mastodon, a T. rex skeleton built from a do-it-yourself kit, and a family of beavers emerging from a crate marked “Product of Mexico.”

From New York Times Mar. 31, 2014

It was also during these decades that VS Naipaul's withering accounts of "half-made" postcolonial societies came to be hugely influential.

From The Guardian Jul. 27, 2012

“Stheno, you fool!” she gurgled as her half-made face rose from the mound of dust.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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