exception
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- noun
- /ɪkˈsɛpʃən/
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excepción
- With a few notable exceptions, this situation has continued up to our own times.
- exception to the rule
- make an exception
- almost without exception
No, there are exceptions to that, but they are rare.
- No, there are exceptions to that, but they are rare.
- And those people had done nothing wrong with the exception of trusting me.
- You will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well.
- But be that as it may, it was the one exception he recognized.
- It seems to me that those are exceptions rather than common issues.
- Well, I guess if if it's hard to find exceptions, then that gets interesting.
- So, So what I'm saying is historians don't make exceptions on religious grounds.
- That is what's been going on, with a very short exception for the whole war.
- Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are the exceptions in that regard.
- We never, I would say almost without exception, everyone's been pretty awesome.
- And then he'll normally think of exceptions to the role that they've given.
Examples
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Be thankful an exception is being made.
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Would you make an exception for us?
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And everyone, everyone without exception said, are you crazy?
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It's what you call an exception to the rule.
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But be that as it may, it was the one exception he recognized.
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In fact there are only two exceptions to this.
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No, there are exceptions to that, but they are rare.
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And those people had done nothing wrong with the exception of trusting me.
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But my home life was virtually nonreligious, with two exceptions: one public and the other private.
Fiction book (1990) -
The teacher made an exception for the student who had a family emergency.
Synonyms
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A situation when someone is not allowed to join or take part in a group
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Etymology
The word exception comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and capere 'to take', and is the same root as the English word except. So an exception is something or someone 'taken out' of a rule or group, which is why it means a case that is not included.