to all intents and purposes

ADVERB

in every practical sense
the rest are for all practical purposes useless
to all intents and purposes the case is closed

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To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
She is loved in Vauxhall constituency for it - I have been out canvassing for her and to all intents and purposes it is the Kate Hoey vote that we were getting out not the Labour vote. Archive 2008-02-10
His fluency in girl-talk clearly marks him out as a metrosexual, in touch with his feminine side, which bodes well, as Lette is, to all intents and purposes, treating the evening as a hen night.
To all intents and purposes it is a prison within a prison. The Sun
He was to all intents and purposes heterosexual… but then he found he had a crush on one particular bloke in his office.
Pharaon is to all intents and purposes a simpleton, a virtual village idiot.
You're walking down neural pathways that are real, to all intents and purposes. Times, Sunday Times
To all intents and purposes he had already died. The Sun
Tintoretto directs the viewer's main attention to what, to all intents and purposes, is an attribute of Saint George.