The “lab leak” theory — disputed then as now — challenged the semiofficial thesis that the virus had jumped from an infected animal to a human in a food market in Wuhan.
The semiofficial Fars News Agency got its message out in an interview with Syrian parliamentarian Shehade Kamel.
Unfortunately, the consequence was, that I did not understand a word that was said at dinner—a kind of semiofficial reception.
In all cases only those speeches are here presented which have received official or semiofficial sanction.
On this subject I have found a remarkable admission in a semiofficial article, published as recently as 1872.
It deals with the theory of socialism and is extensively quoted in the daily press as a semiofficial voice in domestic affairs.
The Kaiser had his "official" and his "semiofficial" organs.