all but
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Under a $30 billion framework, all but 70 or so of the nation’s 4,276 lenders would be considered community banks.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
They could not quite make the biggest leap of all, but they were firmly ensconced in the upper echelons.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Hotel bookings in Canada and Mexico are outpacing all but one American city ahead of FIFA’s biggest soccer competition, which is unfolding across 16 North American cities starting Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
There was also vindication for some of Lifeson’s more adventurous guitar work of the early ’80s, when he all but invented a new chime-laden language of soloing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
As the figure reached them, the children saw with relief that it was not anybody frightening at all, but somebody they knew: Mr. Poe.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
