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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 the Braves did not win 14 straight pennants (they did win 14 straight division titles), and Smoltz is a also Republican.
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.
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In fact, Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country on the planet except for Canada.
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Except, Nomadness currently has 3,000 pending membership requests.
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In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
I haven't much time for seeing any one, except my patients, and the people I meet in society.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Who he could not make out, except that it was a Kirton: and it prayed him to hasten down immediately.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood

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