How to Use for (all) practical purposes in a Sentence
for (all) practical purposes
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The bill is now, for all practical purposes, dead on arrival.
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Yohanan Plesner,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Dec. 2023
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The latter would, for practical purposes, mean a life sentence.
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Michael Tarm,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 Sep. 2022
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The Quattro, for all practical purposes, eliminates the need to listen to the weather report.
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Larry Griffin,
Car and Driver,
18 Apr. 2023
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There is now a sense that, for all practical purposes, the investigation into the disappearance of the Forty-three has come to an end.
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Alma Guillermoprieto,
The New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2024
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But Dallas led most of the first half in Game 5 and trailed by just one point early in the third quarter before a 17-0 run by Phoenix, coming seemingly from out of nowhere, ended the game for all practical purposes.
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Dallas News,
14 May 2022
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For many adults, the skill is saved for practical purposes: recipes, owner’s manuals, street signs, websites or newspapers like this.
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Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2024
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So, for practical purposes, toothpaste isn’t a great option.
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Jeanne Huber,
Washington Post,
5 Jan. 2024
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Such engines have been studied for decades, but have never been developed for practical purposes.
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Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
30 Apr. 2024
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But for all practical purposes, that difference may not matter.
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Katie Arnold-Ratliff,
SELF,
29 Nov. 2022
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Earth's core, as inaccessible as the Sun for all practical purposes, has always made a handy repository for our wildest fantasies.
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Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
17 Aug. 2023
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But for practical purposes, the question of when this transition occurs largely comes down to human behavior.
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Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
14 Mar. 2022
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Then again, Paul, who is for all practical purposes a professional cynic, thinks everything is a terrible idea.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
24 Jan. 2023
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For the most part, these hypertrophy processes occur at the same time, so for practical purposes, the distinction isn't significant.
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Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
12 Oct. 2022
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Still others hold that the effort is pointless, that the dollar is already effectively digital for all practical purposes.
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Milton Ezrati,
Forbes,
5 May 2023
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Most actors don’t pay too much attention to the language, and for practical purposes, background performances are typically not spliced into other projects to be reused in perpetuity.
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Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
25 July 2023
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The vintage Coleman cooler is one of several on the property—all originally purchased for practical purposes.
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Shaila Wunderlich,
Country Living,
28 Sep. 2022
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More use diagonals and asymmetry in their floorplans and forms not only for visual and emotional impact, but for practical purposes: to bring people closer to one another, the pulpit and the altar, in ways that traditional churches sometimes don’t.
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Dirk Sutro,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2023
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However, there are several beaches in Puerto Rico that, for all practical purposes, businesses have privatized, contrary to the archipelago’s law that all beaches are public spaces.
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Camille Padilla Dalmau and Frances Medina,
refinery29.com,
4 Oct. 2023
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The first indoor location system Balakrishnan has created other systems that use sensors for practical purposes.
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IEEE Spectrum,
12 Nov. 2023
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Ownership and Markets Are Inextricable Some policymakers have proposed rules that would effectively ban tokens and therefore, for all practical purposes, blockchains.
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Chris Dixon,
Fortune,
10 Mar. 2024
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