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Discover LudwigThe phrase "is only exceptional" is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase when describing an event, person, or achievement that stands out among similar items. For example: "The performance of the student was not just good—it was only exceptional."
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Basically, as an addict, Downey is only exceptional in that he got so very publicly caught.
As we note in our own national bestseller on Obama's blueprint, he is on video telling a foreign audience in Greece in 2009 that America is only exceptional in the same way that Brits think Great Britain is exceptional, or the Greeks think that Greece is exceptional.
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Like Stalin, too, he had little of the flair or colour of other 20th-century despots, little mental brilliance, less charisma, no redeeming passion or messianic fervour; he was only exceptional in the magnitude of his thuggery, the brutality, opportunism and cunning of the otherwise dull, grey apparatchik.
There were only exceptional persisting Purkinje cells, which were loaded with storage granules.
Increased root length was most often found on the second mandibular molar (n=11/16), whereas such an observation was only exceptional in controls (n=1/46), more rarely on mandibular premolars or the first molar.
There is only one exceptional case for the Euro Area, the European Union, and Spain where the null hypothesis is not rejected.
It is only during exceptional seasons that teams earn significant margins from improved ticket sales and licensing and from cable and television coverage.
Amongst almost all known field isolated MSV genomes (there is only one exceptional genome out of 581; data not shown), a guanine base is conserved at this site.
Currently, this is only possible in exceptional cases.
This says that building is only allowed in "exceptional" need.
A methylphenidate prescription for children under six is only granted under exceptional circumstances.
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