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SB 323 would ban all abortions in the state except for those performed in medical emergencies or to prevent a pregnant person from suffering death or major, irreversible harm.

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Now she’s firmly back in the Valley, except, of course, when she’s on tour.

I waited for my eyes to readjust, but when they didn’t, there was no place left to go except into my own mind.

From Salon

"At a time when technology and computers are easily accessible, it is shocking that government doctors are still writing prescriptions by hand which cannot be read by anybody except perhaps some chemists," Justice Puri wrote.

From BBC

As a cleaner, there was little I could do except offer words of comfort and assurances that I'd told the care staff.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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