save for
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: not including (someone or something) : except for (someone or something)
The park was deserted save for a few joggers.
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Why then, after dodging bullets and a couple of explosive shellings, look at the president’s role in the economy on fall Sunday when the NFL stops the nation in its tracks save for DraftKings ?
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
But everything about this first half offensively — save for one TD pass to Sutton — has felt unorganized and ineffective and chaotic.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.
—Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
In the festival’s first 25 years, audiences were more likely to see an Indigenous actor than the name of an Indigenous director on the big screen, save for the programming, starting in the late 1970s, of films by acclaimed documentarian Alanis Obomsawin.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
But everything about this first half offensively — save for one TD pass to Sutton — has felt unorganized and ineffective and chaotic.
—Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.
—Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
In the festival’s first 25 years, audiences were more likely to see an Indigenous actor than the name of an Indigenous director on the big screen, save for the programming, starting in the late 1970s, of films by acclaimed documentarian Alanis Obomsawin.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Save for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/save%20for. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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