Synonym: about, almost, just about, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh. Similar words: album, call back, fall behind, fall back on. Meaning: adv. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished.
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91 P-Diddy serves as producer for all but one track.
92 They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger.
93 All but my auntie have had lunch.
94 All but the morning star have disappeared.
95 Others use CTCSS to keep all but subscribing members off the repeater.
96 But the result on the Buckingham Palace balcony was undoubtedly hilarity - to all but the Queen.
97 He was cut off from all but a scanty radio communication with his armies.
98 Inflammatory activity was seen in all symptomatic stenoses and inflammation was also seen in the contralateral side in all but one of the patients (95%).
99 Capricorn , Tuesday , 1 September 2009 Saturn 's rings are all but invisible now.
100 The symptoms of senioritis include an all but irresistible urge to cut classes and ignore due dates for homework and presentations.
101 Feng Yun - ching answered hastily , springing up and all but overturning the opiumlamp as he did so.
102 Why, this silky , smooth - faced companion is a very Turk - all but his beard.
103 Mearsheimer, John. Conventional Deterrence. All but the Chapter on the Nato - Pact competition.
104 All but one of these letter bombs had been intercepted by vigilant post office staff.
105 The last of 10 combat stores ships once operated by the U.S. Navy and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) is all but gone.
106 For a couple of hours, the White House itself will be empty of all but its permanent domestic staff. William Seale, a White House historian[http://sentencedict.com], recalls being in the building at that time.
107 If you look only at promotions and earnings, childless women are all but indistinguishable from men.
108 British people are effectively disenfranchised with little effective control over how they are governed with our law all but inaccessible to ordinary people.
109 But while the dust cloud remains in place over Europe's largest airports, "that is all but impossible," The Economist reported.
110 The most prominent poets of the Victorian period had all but faded from the scene.
111 In all but two of the 10 riskiest cities for homeowners--Orlando and Miami, Fla.--the percentage of homes in foreclosure is lower than that of homes with severely overdue loans.
112 It's the end of the doctrine in all but name.
113 All but one volunteer - who had been abstinent for a year - gambled at least once a week.
114 All but the Australian Terrier and the Miniature Schnauzer were developed in the United Kingdom.
115 The markets have frightened all but the US out of a post - crash flirtation with Keynes.
116 Unlike in past seasons, his insouciant shot-making was also often ruthlessly effective, certainly to the point that Berba's critics were all but silenced.
117 Grozny, Chechnya's capital, was all but obliterated; Russia reassumed power and installed a puppet leader.
118 Who would have thought that America's largest state, a state whose economy is larger than that of all but a few nations, could so easily become a banana republic?
119 Under these all but impossible conditions, Rose of Sharon gave birth to a dead baby.
120 When given to ferrets, it produces a disease whose symptoms are all but identical to the Iowan pig virus.