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View synonyms for on the part of

on the part of



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see for one's part .
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Example Sentences

“This was a show of power on the part of inmate Garcia,” an investigator wrote in the report.

“That was a little bit of sloppy fact-checking on the part of my team on the documentary,” Stewart said.

From Salon

At least two of those relationships with civilian Pentagon chiefs — retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis and Army combat veteran Mark Esper — resulted in open acrimony, despite a long-standing reluctance on the part of current and retired military officers to publicly criticize the commander in chief.

Of course, all of this is a crass exercise on the part of America’s financial class, a heaping sacrifice of vulnerable Americans and democratic bulwarks for the sake of “number go up.”

From Slate

Counterintuitively, it’s formally conservative; whatever the subject, one mockumentary now looks quite a bit like another, with the side eyes and addresses to the camera and a sometimes desperate self-presentation on the part of its characters.

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