in part

Idioms  

1. Also,. To some extent, not wholly, somewhat. For example, We didn't get to Chicago, in part because we didn't have time, or Jerry was the one to blame, in large part because he was the one who hired the contractor, or The attorney himself was in small part responsible for this witness. [Late 1300s]

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Example Sentences

Rwanda’s economy has become one of Africa’s fastest-growing, thanks in part to smuggled Congolese minerals, according to economists.

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“The worst lesson we could draw from this weekend is to say that ‘I can cling to some love words that I heard in part of his speech’ and push the snooze button,” said France’s minister of European affairs, Benjamin Haddad.

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P&G attributed the results in part to retailers and consumers loading up more the previous year.

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Funding support came in part from the National Institute on Aging and the National Cancer Institute.

From Science Daily

Still, wider adoption has been limited in part by outdated building code requirements and fewer financing options.

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