How to Use in all/everything but name in a Sentence

in all/everything but name

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  • Modi has put that process on steroids and today presides over an autocracy in all but name.
    Ashoka Mody, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Pro in all but name The Mac Studio's name is embossed on the bottom.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 June 2023
  • Heck, some food scholars argue that burritos are, in fact, tacos in everything but name.
    Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Now, the Real Housewives franchise has become a survivor show in all but name.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And all signs point to this just being the beginning of what is increasingly looking like rallies in all but name.
    Maria Luiza Rabello, Bloomberg.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But Saul Goodman — who Gene has become again in everything but name — doesn’t care.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Crooked City is the direct continuation of the Crimetown project in all but name.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The larger theme coming out of this race is that secretary of state elections, once nonpartisan in all but name, are changing.
    Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Local farmers couldn’t own their land and were instead rent-paying tenants of grandees like Nicholas—aristocrats in all but name.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Senior party members were considered too high in rank for common laojiao, but many suffered the same fate in everything but name.
    John Delury, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2013
  • The episode centers around Streamberry, an online streaming service that’s Netflix in all but name.
    Neil McRobert, ELLE, 22 June 2023
  • Reagan, for his part, ended up adopting détente as his own policy in all but name—and indeed went beyond what Kissinger did to ease tensions.
    Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Both Congress and the Union army, however, were unwilling to see the slave South recreated in all but name.
    Made By History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Romans overthrew their monarchy, established a republic, and replaced it with a despotism which was a monarchy in all but name.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2010
  • Indeed, for a person whom Putin had called a traitor in all but name, Prigozhin retained a remarkable level of influence and access.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Heating up the franchise and the genre as much as its backwoods Alaska setting put things in a deep freeze, Night County was a new show in all but name.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Mechanically, thematically, and visually this is a sequel in all but name—and that’s perfectly fine by me.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Arizona State officials argued that the fast-growing college was already a university in everything but name.
    Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Winsome and intoxicating, even through those crystal-clear blue eyes, the hunky actor has spent the last two decades as a bonafide Hollywood Chris in everything but name.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There is little dispute that Sisi’s rule, a military dictatorship in all but name, is the most repressive in Egypt’s modern history.
    Sarah Leah Whitson, Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2021
  • To stay in line with this policy, Tsai’s travels are coordinated between two organizations that function as embassies in all but name.
    Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Since the early 1990s, a handful of wealthy families -- an oligarchy in all but name -- has dominated Greek politics.
    Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2014
  • And the Pac-12 athletes—a union in all but name and legal status—are willing to take the necessary actions to achieve a fairer set of work conditions in the face of a deadly pandemic.
    Nick Martin, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The ruling came after the US Justice Department challenged the alliance, accusing it of being a merger in all but name that had led to higher prices.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • This is a concerto in all but name, though one in which the traditional mythic narrative of the individual versus the collective is poignantly recast through the modern prism of racial prejudice.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Since becoming president, Bolsonaro has indeed brought soldiers back to the table—to the degree that many Brazilians think of his administration as a military government in all but name.
    Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Fashion photographer Cecil Beaton, who took the Coronation pictures in 1953 (and was practically court photographer in all but name), went further still.
    Nick Glass, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022

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