• ablation, exception, excision, exemption, pulling out, removal, taking out
• exceptional, extreme, rare, unique
• exceptionally, extraordinarily, on rare occasions
• favoritism, favouritism
• to except, to make an exception
• bar none, every time, one and all, without exception
• exception of a rule, exception to a rule
• the exception proves the rule
• all but, except, excepting, excluding, to the exclusion of sg, with exception of
• present company excepted
• it allows of no exception