de facto

Example Sentences

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A top UN official has warned that these amount to "gradual, de facto annexation."

From BBC

Now her all-woman fighting unit is at risk after a deal with Damascus ended the Kurds' de facto autonomy.

From Barron's

"So it's a case of whether governments can converge fast enough to create meaningful guardrails before de facto standards are set by the companies themselves."

From Barron's

That would act as a de facto ban as doctors would only perform them in the most essential cases, the MPs say.

From BBC

Now, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is nearly a decade into an ambitious modernizing project.

From The Wall Street Journal