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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in part

Volkswagen’s supervisory board this month approved a plan to cut 100,000 jobs and halve its model portfolio, in part due to the strain of increasing competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Hudson said he wants to sell in part because he’s fed up with his condo.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Each El Niño of yore that put this broad basin underwater had a different character because each cut loose on an evolving L.A., a place altered in part by floods and changed because of them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

But the blazes this year have been particularly bad in part because of the El Nino climate phenomenon expected to be the strongest since comparable records began four decades ago.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

This was, in part, because the Egyptians were of a practical bent.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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