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except for
Idioms and Phrases
Also, with the exception of . Other than, were it not for. For example, Except for Jack, everyone came to the party , or With the exception of the weather, everything went extremely well . [c. 1600]Example Sentences
They get to figure out how to monetize us on our needs and then everybody ends up poorer for it, except for the folks at the very top of those corporations.
Hudson seemed to brace herself in December for something like this current kerfuffle, writing on her Instagram Stories: “Nothing changed for us in 2024 except for ‘public knowledge’: yet, somehow everything changed.
Meanwhile, UV levels across most parts of the UK are expected to be high, except for northern Scotland where they will be moderate.
Yet 43.5 hours after setting off she completed the challenge, that included 10,000m of climbing, inside the cut-off time, walking the whole way except for a short stretch after one of the highest points when she was worried she might get hyperthermia.
A Pew poll released last week found that 59% of respondents now disapprove of the president’s job performance, and only 40% approve — a historically low approval rating at this point for any modern president, except for Trump himself, who performed at a statistically similar level during the same period of his first term.
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