in all/everything but name
idiom
: not in an official way but in every other way
Military governors ruled the country in all but name for many years.
Their marriage was over in all but name five years ago.
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Further Reading Apple Watch Series 3, dead in all but name, now actually dead
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman (via MacRumors) says this year will be different.
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Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 8 May 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
Pro in all but name The Mac Studio's name is embossed on the bottom.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 June 2023
The newer, smaller Republican Party, the Trump Party in all but name, will not return its hero to the Oval Office.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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
Some other great brands have gone this way recently, as with the case of Bed Bath & Beyond going extinct in all but name—which was sold to the former Overstock.com.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
Since the exercise was a war game, Russia was given a different name, but for the first time, NATO officials were using real-world geographical data and targeting coordinates – a move that identified the adversary in all but name.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
But Saul Goodman — who Gene has become again in everything but name — doesn’t care.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 8 May 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
Pro in all but name The Mac Studio's name is embossed on the bottom.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 June 2023
The newer, smaller Republican Party, the Trump Party in all but name, will not return its hero to the Oval Office.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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
Some other great brands have gone this way recently, as with the case of Bed Bath & Beyond going extinct in all but name—which was sold to the former Overstock.com.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
Since the exercise was a war game, Russia was given a different name, but for the first time, NATO officials were using real-world geographical data and targeting coordinates – a move that identified the adversary in all but name.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
But Saul Goodman — who Gene has become again in everything but name — doesn’t care.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
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