for all intents and purposes

1. see to all intents and purposes.

Example Sentences

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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When someone did find their way into one of the street-wide corrals serving as a line, they were, for all intents and purposes, on their own in a sea of people.

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Related Words

• approximately 
• basically 
• essentially 
• morally 
• nearly 
• virtually