for all intents and purposes
Example Sentences
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The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
In other words, for all intents and purposes Mr. Burger was a third author.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“The consumer, for all intents and purposes, pays the tariff,” it added.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
When someone did find their way into one of the street-wide corrals serving as a line, they were, for all intents and purposes, on their own in a sea of people.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2024
He was forty, out of baseball, and, for all intents and purposes, out of life.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
