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/fɔr ɔl ɪntˈɛnts ənd pˈərpəsəz/ Listen

For all intents and purposes

adverb

In every practical sense. Synonyms: for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes. "The rest are for all practical purposes useless"

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"For all intents and purposes" Quotes from Famous Books

... teetotallers, your country is not worth the living in! No more doth the invigorating, all-inspiring, thrice concentrated juice of the 'barley grain' push you forward to glorious deeds of heroic daring—of skull-breaking, dancing, or of story-telling; so that for all intents and purposes you have nothing left worth chronicling—you are getting like the rest of the world!" "Aisy a bit," say I, "the fiddle and the bagpipes have just the same charms to 'put the capers in our heels' as in whisky's balmiest days; and as for story-telling, that we can ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various

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