apparent exception

collocation in English

meaningsofapparentandexception

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apparent
adjective
uk
/əˈpær.ənt/us
/əˈper.ənt/
able to be seen ...
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exception
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/us
/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/
someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the ...
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(Definition ofapparentandexceptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofapparent exception

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True exception is to be distinguished fromapparentexception, or phonological opacity.
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Anapparentexceptionto this might be the group of so called 'cooking er-nouns': broiler, roaster, frier.
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An initial observation is that, with oneapparentexception(to be discussed below), all errors involved single letters.
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Interestingly enough, overbuild presents still another type ofapparentexceptionto the generalization that only a location entity appears as a direct object.
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Oneapparentexceptionfrom the free market is compensation, although it does not deviate from the free-market concept.
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The law of private nuisance, which determines whether some level of noise or smell counts as a nuisance based on a "locality" rule is only anapparentexceptionto this.
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There is anapparentexception, but we must not allow consideration of these apparent exceptions—which are not real ones—to cloud the issue.
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The protein is post translationally glycosylated and expressed in all tissue with theapparentexceptionof skeletal muscle.
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The onlyapparentexceptionto this opposition to cooperation is the spontaneous association that may arise when a society is threatened by violent force.
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For example, honey is considered kosher even though honey bees are not, anapparentexceptionto the normal rule that products of an unclean animal are also unclean.
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