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"Before 2008, there were no major blooms of macroalgae reported except for sargassum in the Sargasso Sea," Hu said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Net sales increased in all of Colgate-Palmolive’s geographical sectors, except North America, where net sales were down 3%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“It’s considered a small study and I don’t want to go overboard, except to say that it’s encouraging.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
"There was nobody like me, except in the specialist programmes."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
I couldn’t see anything except the neat grooves of the floorboards.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Vocabulary lists containing except
Commonly Confused Words, List 1
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Commonly Confused Words, List 6
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