'Intensive purposes': An Eggcorn
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Sometimes a word that sounds like the right word, and feels like the right word, isn't actually the right word. It's an eggcorn.
If something has the same effect or result as another thing, it's not "for all intensive purposes" the same as that other thing, it's for all intents and purposes the same. It shares the same aim as the other thing, so it has the same effect or result.
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