for all intents and purposes
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In other words, for all intents and purposes Mr. Burger was a third author.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“The consumer, for all intents and purposes, pays the tariff,” it added.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Hulu, for all intents and purposes, will exist only in ghost form.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2025
“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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
He was forty, out of baseball, and, for all intents and purposes, out of life.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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