facto

Adverb

Meaning

In fact; by the act or fact.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

once yet actually already slowly indeed deliberately hitherto retrospectively heretofore leisurely ma'am ipso facto sine die at one's leisure
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Phrases with the word

de facto de facto union de facto partner de facto relationship de facto leader post facto cases

Examples

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. Pierre Bourdieu

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined. Bill Moyers

The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. Shirley Chisholm

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. Brian Ferneyhough

The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the "Alt-Right." A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party. Hillary Clinton

"Du gamla, du fria” (Thou ancient, Thou free) is the title of the de facto national anthem of Sweden. Old Swedish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

factlet factly factness factographer factographic factography