half-remembered

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adjective

(of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled

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Words nearby half-remembered

half-pound, half-price, half-quartern, half-quire, half relief, half-remembered, half rest, half-rhyme, half-right, half-rod, half-round

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How to use half-remembered in a sentence

Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
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My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
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I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my Mom and she was not into it.
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As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
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Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
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