How to Use in all/everything but name in a Sentence
in all/everything but name
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Now, the Real Housewives franchise has become a survivor show in all but name.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
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Crooked City is the direct continuation of the Crimetown project in all but name.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
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His opponent, Marine Le Pen, is a fascist in all but name.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
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But Saul Goodman — who Gene has become again in everything but name — doesn’t care.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
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Some other great brands have gone this way recently, as with the case of Bed Bath & Beyond going extinct in all but name—which was sold to the former Overstock.com.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
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And all signs point to this just being the beginning of what is increasingly looking like rallies in all but name.
—Maria Luiza Rabello, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023
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Heck, some food scholars argue that burritos are, in fact, tacos in everything but name.
—Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2022
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Local farmers couldn’t own their land and were instead rent-paying tenants of grandees like Nicholas—aristocrats in all but name.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
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But the trade appears to have boomed since U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outsourced tasks to military contractors — many of them mercenaries in all but name.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
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The episode centers around Streamberry, an online streaming service that’s Netflix in all but name.
—Neil McRobert, ELLE, 22 June 2023
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The larger theme coming out of this race is that secretary of state elections, once nonpartisan in all but name, are changing.
—Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
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Indeed, for a person whom Putin had called a traitor in all but name, Prigozhin retained a remarkable level of influence and access.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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The Romans overthrew their monarchy, established a republic, and replaced it with a despotism which was a monarchy in all but name.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2010
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And the Pac-12 athletes—a union in all but name and legal status—are willing to take the necessary actions to achieve a fairer set of work conditions in the face of a deadly pandemic.
—Nick Martin, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
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The ruling came after the US Justice Department challenged the alliance, accusing it of being a merger in all but name that had led to higher prices.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
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Since then, Somaliland has become a functioning state in all but name, with 4.5m people on an area bigger than Florida.
—The Economist, 8 May 2021
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There is little dispute that Sisi’s rule, a military dictatorship in all but name, is the most repressive in Egypt’s modern history.
—Sarah Leah Whitson, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2021
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Mechanically, thematically, and visually this is a sequel in all but name—and that’s perfectly fine by me.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
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To stay in line with this policy, Tsai’s travels are coordinated between two organizations that function as embassies in all but name.
—Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
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This is a concerto in all but name, though one in which the traditional mythic narrative of the individual versus the collective is poignantly recast through the modern prism of racial prejudice.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
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Fashion photographer Cecil Beaton, who took the Coronation pictures in 1953 (and was practically court photographer in all but name), went further still.
—Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
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