Translation
but
Examples
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But I do not believe it.
; .
I said everything; but nobody listened.
?
But who did this?
; .
There is no room; but there is time.
tacuit.
But even so he kept silent.
At is the loud 'but'. Where sed simply corrects and autem contrasts quietly from second position, at breaks in: it introduces an objection, a change of speaker, or the imagined complaint of an opponent. It stands first in its clause, always. In plain prose sed is the safe default, and at is what you reach for when the sentence should sound like an interruption.
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