for all intents and purposes
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So, yes, for all intents and purposes, the Golden Globes are back.
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The two women — complete strangers, for all intents and purposes — are jittery around each other until they discover how much they have in common.
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Dog racing was killed by ballot initiative in Florida and the other sports are, for all intents and purposes, nonexistent.
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This was, for all intents and purposes, a nightmare matchup for USC on paper.
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“Things are very different now. Things evolved during the period of time that I was there where the police commissioners, for all intents and purposes, provided a rubber stamp,” he said in the deposition.
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