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also excepting
as in but
not including
the store is open daily except Sundays
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1
as in to object
to present an opposing opinion or argument
I must except to your remark that there are no great novelists currently living
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2
as in to exclude
to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of
we'll have to except members who haven't paid their club dues from voting in the election
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also excepting
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Alaa Elassar, CNN, 25 May 2020
Under Supreme Court precedents related to the principles of separation of power, Congress – one branch of government – cannot remove an official in the executive branch – another branch of government – except by impeachment.
—Stanley M. Brand, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
On the other hand, not a few clerics and laypeople complain about the inauthenticity of sermons produced by a ghostwriter, the Holy Ghost presumably excepted.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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Preposition
No one is allowed inside her home except those helping her, White's representative told Today.
—Alaa Elassar, CNN, 25 May 2020
Under Supreme Court precedents related to the principles of separation of power, Congress – one branch of government – cannot remove an official in the executive branch – another branch of government – except by impeachment.
—Stanley M. Brand, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
Verb
On a snowy January morning in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a flat-screen monitor in a former Mennonite elementary school displays the vital signs of WebstaurantStore, which, excepting produce, sells everything a restaurant might need, from $25,000 walk-in freezers to 15-cent takeout containers.
—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
On the other hand, not a few clerics and laypeople complain about the inauthenticity of sermons produced by a ghostwriter, the Holy Ghost presumably excepted.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Except.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/except. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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