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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]

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Except for one, all of them were either unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status.

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And by the way, it’s almost always been remote, except for the first season.

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The last wolf legally shot in California was in 1924, and by 1930 they were gone from almost the entire country, except for a small pack in northern Minnesota.

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Jeeves is a deus ex machina; we learn almost nothing about him, except for imperturbability and skill at solving the crises that Bertie falls into through his pure cloth-headedness.

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That would be great, Kasten said, except for what he said was an insurmountable obstacle.

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