except for

Gilbert, 43, said the encampment has been mostly peaceful, except for one alcohol-fueled fight, and he wasn’t aware of any visitors who were threatened or of any drug deals.

Except for the optics of it all.

All of which would eventually be subsumed in the all-purpose label “woke” — well, except for “cultural Marxism,” which basically just means Jewish.

The takeaway has to be capitalizing on the frustration that’s being felt by everyone, really, except for the technocrat billionaire class.

That kid, as his brother, Ricardo, recalls, was no different from any other teen in Guadalajara, except for an unusual obsession: to succeed in a brutal and demanding sport.