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What does for all intents and purposes mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word for all intents and purposes? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (US) For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect
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The pair came off, for all intents and purposes, as passionately opinionated amateurs on the subject at hand.
These spirals were three and four years long each, so for all intents and purposes they were blocks.
The new steering-mode selector switch, albeit a newer model, was for all intents and purposes physically the same as the original switch.
Japan is, for all intents and purposes, our strongest ally in Asia at the moment.
This allowed pirates for the first time to reproduce what was for all intents and purposes an exact copy of an original.
It fundamentally denies women's rights and makes them disappear for all intents and purposes.

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