apart from

as in except
not including apart from the saggy roof, the cottage is in pretty good shape

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Recent Examples of apart from What sets 1883 apart from the Sheridan pack is crisp storytelling — paying significant homage to Sheridan’s love of Larry McMutry’s Lonesome Dove along the way. Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025 As a stand-alone entity, apart from Google, YouTube would be worth more than $400 billion, Wall Street analyst firm MoffettNathanson has estimated — more than Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global combined. Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025 The actual street prices for these cards, so far, have often been well higher than their MSRPs, due to strong demand and short supply, apart from the usual variances among models. PCMAG, 4 Mar. 2025 The pair appeared together in ten films, and though both had tremendous success apart from one another, there’s a kind of magic to seeing them together. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for apart from
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  • At Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort, face masks are required in public areas, except when dining or swimming, capacity of public areas will be limited, and housekeeping and public area attendants will increase their cleaning procedures.
    Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2020
  • The city advised all residents to stay inside except those going to and from work and anyone seeking or giving emergency care, according to Mayor Eric Garcetti's official Twitter account.
    NBC News, NBC News, 1 June 2020
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  • There’s been a thread of vulnerability running concurrently beside superb highs for some time.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The video closes with the package delivery confirmation photo Agati received from the driver, which features a beaming Frank standing beside the box The precious clip now has over 13.9 million views on TikTok and has inspired thousands of comments.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • But his death had many contributing factors besides being unable to breath while face down on the ground.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 2 June 2020
  • The airline’s crew members and ground services personnel are undergoing detailed health check-ups at regular intervals, besides wearing protective gear at all times.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 31 May 2020
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  • There could be no cell towers, no solar arrays, no new houses for anyone other than my father and his siblings.
    Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The report found that approximately 200 truck drivers provided no other service other than shuttling other workers from place to place, then remained in their vehicles while other employees did some actual work.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
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  • In the past, Eilish has sent Happier Than Ever to No. 1 on each and every one of those rankings except for the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • No New Yorker succession has been without last-minute drama, except for, possibly, the first, in 1951, when the magazine’s founding editor died while having one of his lungs removed, and the ship glided on under his longtime deputy.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
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  • Normally, big job losses trigger massive searches for full-time jobs, but this crisis has been anything but normal.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 June 2020
  • Despite the pleas for calm, the nation seemed anything but as a fitful week drew to a close.
    Robert Klemko, Washington Post, 30 May 2020

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“Apart from.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apart%20from. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.

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