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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