de facto
Example Sentences
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“The ugly truth,” Bosworth wrote, “is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
The Make America Healthy Again movement, for which Kennedy is the de facto leader, promotes a diet heavy in meat and animal products, such as butter, beef tallow and raw milk.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
She becomes the de facto “keeper” of these letters and more mementos — a “strange gift,” she writes, the paper trail of something that should never have happened.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Saudi Arabia, Opec's de facto leader, produced over nine million barrels per day.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
By the late 1980s, Sing Sing’s status as a de facto training facility was well established.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
