to all intents and purposes

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in all the most important ways We've got a few odd things to finish, but to all intents and purposes the job is done. They redesigned the old model and created something which was to all intents and purposes a brand new car.

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To all intents and purposes the compass was as efficient as before; but, as a matter of fact, the moving of the pointers upon the dials resulted now in no corresponding shift of the mechanism beneath--and the device was set, immovably, upon a destination of the slave's own choosing. Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context In the eye of the law she was, of course, a single woman: she was of age; she was, to all intents and purposes, her own mistress. The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context More results

? References in classic literature

To all intents and purposes the compass was as efficient as before; but, as a matter of fact, the moving of the pointers upon the dials resulted now in no corresponding shift of the mechanism beneath--and the device was set, immovably, upon a destination of the slave's own choosing.

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

In the eye of the law she was, of course, a single woman: she was of age; she was, to all intents and purposes, her own mistress.

The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

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