ADVERB
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in every practical sense
the rest are for all practical purposes useless
to all intents and purposes the case is closed
How To Use for all practical purposes In A Sentence
- But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
- The sale was supposed to last for a week, but for all practical purposes it's over.
- He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure. BLACK EAGLES
- The edit display screen can only be used, for all practical purposes[Sentence dictionary], for cutting and pasting.
- For all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist.
- We have a Secretary of State for Scotland who is for all practical purposes a Scottish Prime Minister.
- The excellence of the intention is fully and readily recognised, but, for all practical purposes, the letter has received very much the same treatment at the hands of the Northern public as that usually assigned to intermeddlers in conjugal differences. London, Saturday, September28, 1861.
- The time you spend on it doesn't, for all practical purposes, affect the final result.
- But for all practical purposes, they're both unelectable this fall.
- Dr Frampton is in charge, but for all practical purposes, her assistant runs the office.