except
/ɪkˈsept/ preposition, conjunctionDefinition
› not including a particular fact, thing, or person: The boat sails from Oban every day except Sunday. Everyone passed the exam except for Rory. [+ (that)] So nothing changed, except that Anna saw her son less and less.
(Definition of except prepositionconjunction from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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