exceptions

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From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

With few exceptions, the limit applies to most appropriations of tax revenue, including when lawmakers put money away in the rainy day fund and other reserves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2026

Neighbouring Papua New Guinea briefly suspended imports of Australian eggs and chicken meat -- although this has since been lifted with some exceptions.

From Barron's • Jun. 24, 2026

Beyond the pump, with a few exceptions, sales were muted and trade in volume terms was flat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Those exceptions are two very distinctive, click-laden Khoisan languages named Hadza and Sandawe, stranded in Tanzania more than 1,000 miles from the nearest Khoisan languages of southern Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond