excluding
Britishpreposition
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Earnings per share, excluding certain items, was $1.57, compared with $1.45 a year earlier.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge is core PCE, or the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Warner generated $8.9 billion in revenue, a 3% decline from the same quarter one year ago, excluding the effect of foreign exchange rate fluctuations.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The Austrian bank reported a first-quarter net profit excluding Russia of 209 million euros, against consensus estimates compiled by the bank of 249 million euros.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
She rolled her eyes at her new friends, and they collected their trays of cornflakes and toast and sat together, an instant gang, excluding everyone else in order to gossip about them.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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