for all practical purposes
Example Sentences
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The supermajority then scolded lower courts for failing to anticipate that Humphrey’s Executor had, for all practical purposes, been silently overruled.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025
“I think for all practical purposes, the primary is over.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
"It was not just compounded, but for all practical purposes rendered irremediable, by the erroneous entry on his admission record that he had had it," Ms Skinner said.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
"You could describe Doha at best as treading water, at worst as moving backwards. But at this point treading water is for all practical purposes moving backwards," he added.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2022
Legally, as well as for all practical purposes, he was blind.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
