exception
Example Sentences
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Capital Delhi, which has India's widest metro network, is perhaps the only exception where usage has slightly surpassed projections.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
From time to time I’ll make an exception and settle into a relative page-turner: nothing with cliffhangers or lots of hand-to-hand combat, mind you, but with a brisker narrative pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The start to this year was no exception.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
But it included an exception for suits “brought for a violation of the Constitution.”
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
I was very fortunate, for they were, without exception, healthy; and in their infancy and childhood my daughter looked after them almost as much as I did.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing exception
Power Prefix: ex-
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"The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas
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