Fairly
Fairly adverb - To some degree or extent.
Usage example: for someone without professional training, she sings fairly well
Partially and fairly are semantically related in to some extent topic. In some cases you can use "Partially" instead an adverb "Fairly".
Partially
Partially adverb - In some measure or degree.
Usage example: the construction project is only partially complete
Fairly and partially are semantically related in to some extent topic. Sometimes you can use "Fairly" instead an adverb "Partially".
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- This is partially because the overall spread of events was designed to allow for inconsistencies, and partially because Lelouch starts out at a fairly low rank, and stays that way for a while.
Source: Fan Fic / Soul Chess -
Police Brutality: Chang, though fairly sympathetic, is not above brutally punishing and showing callousness towards relatively innocent people if he thinks they're partially to blame for a crime.
Source: Film / Only God Forgives -
Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness: It gets a fairly hard 9, due to horrific imagery like a soldier with his intestines partially hanging out, another one with his face missing, blood oozing out of open wounds on bare skin, some soldiers partially exploding when hit by high-caliber ammunition, etc.
Source: Film / Saving Private Ryan
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