Except
Except verb - To prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of.
Usage example: we'll have to except members who haven't paid their club dues from voting in the election
Impede
Common collocations
| experience | except experience | impede experience |
Both words in one sentence
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Technology and magic are however mostly separate, and except for the intrusive implants, do not impede one another.
Source: Magic Versus Science - This illness will not impede their daily life or heroics in any way, except during plot-appropriate moments.
Source: Analysis / Yasuko Kobayashi
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