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The vote will be a referendum on Europe in all but name.
The Guardian
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Yet the deal all but guarantees that cannot happen before next year.
Reuters
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In New Zealand the media all but ignored the international workers' day.
Radio NZ
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Information withheld from all but a few Forerunners for thousands of years.
Halo Cryptum
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New York Heart Association functional class improved in all but 1 patient.
Pubmed
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I wanted to know all but didn't have the courage to ask.
Petals from the sky
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The CSV has led all but one government since World War Two.
Reuters
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But locals say the national government has all but abandoned them otherwise.
Reuters
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The HIV infection had progressed to AIDS in all but one case.
Pubmed
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War with the Soviet Union was all but inevitable, sooner or later.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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And thousands of people circulating together make contact tracing all but impossible.
The Guardian
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She said nothing; the words had jumped from her, all but unbidden.
The Secret Eleanor
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Authorities identify all but one of 36 Oakland fire victims OAKLAND, Calif.
Reuters
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Today, there is no Soviet Union, while communism has all but disappeared.
The Irish Times
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For all but the greatest a moment of inattention meant certain destruction.
Surrender to the will of the night
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Certainly becoming an expert by your early twenties was all but impossible.
Outliers: the story of success