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Cannot help but

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  1. 1
    Alternative form of cannot but. alt-of, alternative, no-past-participle, no-present-participle

    "As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them."

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