exceptional
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Asylum seekers are not eligible for social housing, unless in exceptional circumstances such as domestic abuse cases.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Their soft bodies rarely fossilized, meaning that only exceptional environmental conditions could preserve them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
In exceptional cases, disseminating footage that’s hard to stomach serves a noble objective.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Excluding exceptional items, core earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were $1.21 billion for the half, up 9% at constant currency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But such leviathans appeared only late in antiquity, and were exceptional.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing exceptional
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