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/fɔr ɔl ɪntˈɛnts ənd pˈərpəsəz/ Listen

For all intents and purposes

adverb

In every practical sense. Synonyms: for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes. "The rest are for all practical purposes useless"

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... copper, for, solid and immovable, they reflected things from their own point of view alone, in a dull and irregular and distorted fashion. And souls, I thought, existed which seemed as flat as mirrors, and, for all intents and purposes, had no existence ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky