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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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These spirals were three and four years long each, so for all intents and purposes they were blocks.
It fundamentally denies women's rights and makes them disappear for all intents and purposes.
Winning hearts and minds took a backseat to overawing malcontent factions with an overwhelming and, for all intents and purposes, enduring show of force.
Japan is, for all intents and purposes, our strongest ally in Asia at the moment.
First the logical deletion takes place: the article is still in the system, but for all intents and purposes it is unavailable to users.
This allowed pirates for the first time to reproduce what was for all intents and purposes an exact copy of an original.

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