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
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Even Evil Has Standards: Averted with most of the families except the Vinci family, who explicitly prohibit drug dealing.
Source: Video Game / Mafia II -
The moral and political considerations have to be made, and treaties often prohibit the use of such weapons except in certain cases.
Source: Standard Sci-Fi Army -
Everybody except their confessors is quite aware of the true nature of Tiphaine and Delia's, and Delia and Rigobert's, relationships, but the attitudes of the kingdom prohibit any public acknowledgement.
Source: Open Secret
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