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intensive purposes or intents and purposes?
If you are casting about for the phrase that is used to say that “one thing has the same effect or result as something else,” you are looking for for all intents and purposes; you are not looking for intensive purposes. Your purposes may indeed be intensive in some way (we don’t want to know the details), but these two words are not commonly found together as an idiom. The pairing of intents and purposes comes from a 1546 Act of Parliament conveying that King Henry VIII had unlimited power to interpret laws; it contained the phrase “to all intents, constructions, and purposes.”
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Abbey White, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
This particularly intensive audio system, with perfect sound and optimum performance, supports the allusion of a riding on-air floating feeling inside this ultra luxury SUV.
—Tony Leopardo, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
Bergmann said that suggests that crisis teams have become a community resource for many, not just an emergency service for people who need to be connected to intensive levels of inpatient care.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024
Coordinating schedules was something of a nightmare, and the hard work is still ahead, when all will gather in Kansas City for intensive rehearsals.
—Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2024
Asked last week whether the military was concerned that more cases of indiscriminate fire had occurred over months of intensive Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, its spokesman, did not provide a substantive answer.
—Amanda Taub, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
April 3, 2024 When skin feels dry, irritated, rough, and tight, sometimes a face moisturizer alone doesn’t cut it—after all, severe dry skin needs serious, intensive solutions.
—Danielle Cohen, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2024
The Wachowskis took influence from Hong Kong’s martial arts movies, which employ wires and pulleys to propel performers, and had their stars undergo months of intensive combat training before the shoot.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
Those childcare benefits don’t have to be as financially intensive as investing in an on-site facility either.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
These programs range in length, price, and style—from intensives at rustic wilderness lodges to luxury wellness resorts with spa amenities.
—Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
Over two weeks, six said creators will participate in workshops and direct meetings with industry leaders to help develop their drama pilots, starting with a three-day intensive that will include honing their pitching skills and learning about FX’s development process.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
Prominent studios across the country have risen to meet the demand, offering week-long adult intensives and even performance opportunities.
—Alice Robb, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
Their Race2Community program includes a nine-week intensive built to guide white women through deep introspection surrounding their own internalized white supremacy.
—Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
To make squat day more glute intensive, try using an exaggerated wide stance.
—Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 19 Oct. 2022
Out of each year’s participants, the program selects 400 enthusiastic, aspiring dancers to join a 10-week intensive at Boston Ballet.
—Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
The ballet has the Otto M. Budig Academy, too, with a schedule of summer intensives.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2020
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“Intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intensive. Accessed 1 May. 2024.
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