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[ adverb ] in every practical sense

Examples

"to all intents and purposes the case is closed" "the rest are for all practical purposes useless"

Used in print

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

Today Northern_Vietnam is overtly Communist ; Laos is teetering between Communism and pro Communist neutralism ; Cambodia is , for_all_practical_purposes , neutralist .

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