for all practical purposes
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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
"Yet, for all practical purposes, throughout the lifetime of legacy Horizon, the Post Office maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
“I think for all practical purposes, the primary is over.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
"We're fooling ourselves if we think that abandoning, for all practical purposes, semiconductor manufacturing, is a smart strategy for the United States," Yellen said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023
This number is infinitesimal—zero, for all practical purposes.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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