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half-forgotten (not comparable)

  1. Not completely forgotten.
    • 1941 September, Guy Bakewell, “Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:
      Save for a short distance at one end both its northern and southern extremities are desolate and unused for some miles, and grass covers the platforms of half-forgotten stations; but of its central portion, part is a busy electrified suburban branch and another part used for goods traffic.
    • 2023 January 25, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 975, page 71:
      Now the model sits on a shelf in York's 'Warehouse' (known these days as the 'North Shed'), together with racks full of lamps, cutlery, and other ephemera from half-forgotten railway companies of long ago.

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