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It looks like a hotel, except the airflow in each room is designed to be negative pressure, which can help prevent contaminated air from leaving the room.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Everyone’s right, except that at the end of all of this, we still don’t know and probably never will.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
What’s Next: Starting May 19, Delta will stop serving beverages and snacks on flights shorter than 350 miles, except for passengers in first class.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
The panel said Brown had not been willing to engage except on his own terms, which usually meant not engaging at all.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Neither Sarah Taylor nor almost any person, except Maggie, could have possibly understood the kind of abnormality Kate Fox had lived with since she was eleven years old.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing except
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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