ADJECTIVE
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existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not
de facto segregation is as real as segregation imposed by law
a de facto state of war
ADVERB
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in reality or fact
the result was, de facto, a one-party system
How To Use de facto In A Sentence
- The party established a de facto political cartel that excluded other parties from power.
- This might be interpreted as a de facto recognition of the republic's independence.
- Chops, our de facto Kiwi skipper and engineer, makes another valiant attempt to get it going with the starter cord.
- Law firms would not dream of excluding these de facto discriminators from their hiring schedules, though.
- As such she acts as a de facto clearing house for much of the material brought forth from academia on the topic.
- The former sultana, for her part, still held de facto power behind the scenes at this point.
- The Synod's declarations prevailed de jure but not de facto in the Roman Catholic Church down to the Reformation era.
- In the United States, the Coinage Act of 1873 officially demonetized silver, legally confirming a gold-based currency that - because of silver's relatively high price - was already the de facto standard.
- Of course, the coffee ring on the bottom is his de facto Seal of Office and a dead giveaway, but the grammar and lack of punctuation nail the lid firmly down.
- Though much has been theorized to the contrary, such subcultures are not de facto resistant to a dominant ideology.