"semi-positive" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} semi-positive (not comparable)
  1. Alternative form of semipositive Tags: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable Alternative form of: semipositive
    Sense id: en-semi-positive-en-adj-yZJJ2zN2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "In any event, she nodded at the appropriate moments, initiating the mumbling semi-positive responses which pass for acquiescence in a seventeen year-old and so I felt confident that at least 10% of the rules would be adhered to about 5% of the time.",
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          "text": "A few days later Jack told us the consensus of opinion was that the small tumor had looked highly suspicious, as in cancerous, but not the pancreatic kind. That was semi-positive, although I had a feeling it was his way of not scaring the crap out of us.",
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          "ref": "1945, Modern Plastics Encyclopedia Issue, page 426",
          "text": "Figure 5 illustrates the action of a semi-positive mold.",
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          "ref": "2003, Wil van der Aalst, Eike Best, Applications and Theory of Petri Nets 2003",
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