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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

Personally, I do not imagine that any explanation is needed, but, for form's sake, I will make it.

From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking




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