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for form's sake

ADVERB
pro forma
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You have to change your strategy and read from top to bottom: this is a hand for form’s sake.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2020

It was never form for form’s sake with Pei.

From The Guardian May 17, 2019

A young man texts his boyfriend; he will not, one assumes, be marrying a woman for form’s sake.

From New York Times Dec. 11, 2011

Assad said, saying Syria took part in its deliberations only for form's sake.

From Reuters Dec. 7, 2011

For months I cut myself loose from all books except the little copy of the Testament and Psalms which I carried with me more for form's sake than for any other reason, I fear.

From The Book of Courage by John Thomson Faris




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