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Example Sentences
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The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
In Birgitta Trotzig’s novella, a young woman’s toughness in the face of poverty and heartbreak sets her apart from her village peers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
This has left investors with few attractive options, apart from going to cash, to help their portfolios weather this latest storm.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 29, 2026
As far as he could tell, apart from the trees, he was the only living thing between the horizons.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.