for (all) practical purposes

idiom

—used to say that one thing has the same effect or result as something else

His effort to hide the document was, for practical purposes, an admission that he had made a mistake.

During the blizzard, the town was, for all practical purposes, shut down.

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Cryptocurrencies, especially stablecoins, are being widely used for practical purposes such as business payments, hedging against inflation, and facilitating cross-border transactions. —

Sandy Carter, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 The Venezuelan economy would, for all practical purposes, cease to function at all. —

Michael Shifter, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016 The spherical shell known as the Oort Cloud is, for all practical purposes, invisible. —

James Wray, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024 Since there is no repository on the horizon, the 1976 law, for all practical purposes, amounts to a moratorium on new nuclear facilities in California. —

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