Example of Probability Distribution Not in Exponential Family

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Is there a good example of a probability distribution where the support set does not depend on the parameters and is still not a member of the exponential family?
 
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I'm a bit confused because it seems like almost every family of probability distributions will satisfy this. For example Gaussian random variables have a mean and a standard deviation, and their support set is all of \mathbb{R}. On the discrete case you have things like Bernoulli random variables with a parameter p that take value 1 with probability p, and -1 with probability 1-p.
 
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