Excepting
Next to and excepting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Next to" instead a preposition "Excepting".
Next to
Next to adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Excepting and next to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excepting" instead a preposition phrase "Next to".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Their requirements for playing Kinetik were completely ordinary excepting a sharp note stating that should they be followed by a DJ, said DJ could not play anything by The Prodigy as their first song (on the grounds that nobody sounds good next to the Prodigy).
Source: Music / Shiv-r
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Next to and Excepting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excepting/next_to
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