apart from

Idioms  

1. Also, aside from. Besides, except for. For example, Apart from jogging occasionally in the park, she gets no exercise, or Aside from Sunday dinner with his parents they have not gone out for months. The first term dates from the early 1600s, the variant from the early 1800s.

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apart from

Cave’s joke, of course, is that “Every lead girl in a period drama” is no freer from the demands of feminine beauty than the women she’s meant to stand apart from.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The new hour filmed in Washington, D.C., delivers surgically precise, dryly delivered jokes and personal stories about America falling apart from the heart of our nation’s capital.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"The first thing I said to him, apart from the usual greetings, was that everybody was worried about him, was looking for him, was longing to see him," Pepper told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

In my account, history did not set Mormons apart from the rest of the human family; it bound them to it.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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