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
• Crooked City is the direct continuation of the Crimetown project in all but name.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
• His opponent, Marine Le Pen, is a fascist in all but name.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• But Saul Goodman — who Gene has become again in everything but name — doesn’t care.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Heck, some food scholars argue that burritos are, in fact, tacos in everything but name.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The episode centers around Streamberry, an online streaming service that’s Netflix in all but name.
  — Neil McRobert, ELLE, 22 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024