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.
  — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• The latter would, for practical purposes, mean a life sentence.
  — Michael Tarm, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• The Quattro, for all practical purposes, eliminates the need to listen to the weather report.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 18 Apr. 2023
• There is now a sense that, for all practical purposes, the investigation into the disappearance of the Forty-three has come to an end.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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.
  — Dallas News, 14 May 2022
• For many adults, the skill is saved for practical purposes: recipes, owner’s manuals, street signs, websites or newspapers like this.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
• So, for practical purposes, toothpaste isn’t a great option.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2024
• Such engines have been studied for decades, but have never been developed for practical purposes.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2024
• But for all practical purposes, that difference may not matter.
  — Katie Arnold-Ratliff, SELF, 29 Nov. 2022
• Earth's core, as inaccessible as the Sun for all practical purposes, has always made a handy repository for our wildest fantasies.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• But for practical purposes, the question of when this transition occurs largely comes down to human behavior.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2022
• Then again, Paul, who is for all practical purposes a professional cynic, thinks everything is a terrible idea.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
• For the most part, these hypertrophy processes occur at the same time, so for practical purposes, the distinction isn't significant.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• Still others hold that the effort is pointless, that the dollar is already effectively digital for all practical purposes.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• 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.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 July 2023
• The vintage Coleman cooler is one of several on the property—all originally purchased for practical purposes.
  — Shaila Wunderlich, Country Living, 28 Sep. 2022
• The DeSantis feud is, for all practical purposes, over, with the company solidifying a $17-billion expansion and investment plan for its Florida parks.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2024
• 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.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2023
• 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.
  — Camille Padilla Dalmau and Frances Medina, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2023
• The first indoor location system Balakrishnan has created other systems that use sensors for practical purposes.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Nov. 2023
• Ownership and Markets Are Inextricable Some policymakers have proposed rules that would effectively ban tokens and therefore, for all practical purposes, blockchains.
  — Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
• The bureaucratic culture stifles creativity, which explains why more than a few secretaries of state have, for all practical purposes, walled themselves off from the professionals in the department.
  — Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2020

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024