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Idioms and Phrases
Almost, nearly, as in I've all but finished the book . This expression was used by Andrew Marvell in “Thoughts in a Garden”: “ Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude .” [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
It lost 13 of them in Quebec, with all but one going to the Liberals.
California has been joined by other states in all but one of those lawsuits, and has formally backed litigants against the administration in nearly 20 additional cases, too.
A Supreme Court ruling made the Medicaid expansion voluntary for states; as of today, all but 10 have accepted the expansion.
It has filed 15 lawsuits against the administration, all but one alongside other states, and filed briefs in support of other litigants suing the federal government in at least 18 additional cases.
If the Supreme Court sides with the church in the case and says it has a First Amendment right to be recognized and funded by the state, then that, to me, is a serious threat to everyone’s religious liberty that has been all but erased from this case.
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