halves
Americannoun
idioms
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by halves,
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incompletely or partially.
to do things by halves.
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halfheartedly.
better not at all than by halves.
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go halves, to share equally; divide evenly.
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"This parliament is increasingly looking like one of two halves," said the think tank's chief executive, Ruth Curtice.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The exhibition, which opened Sunday in East Hollywood, aims to unify both halves of his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Using that structural information, the chemists were able to make the connection between the molecule's two halves more rigid.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“You could have folded a picture of them, and the two halves would’ve matched,” Herzog writes.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
With the butcher knife Ma cut the big, orange-colored pumpkins into halves.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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