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Chris -- 2025-05-10
All intensive purposes instead of all intents and purposes
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A classic
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(Go to the eggcorn database page, use the second search option (the google search) to find such previous mentions pretty reliably. It’s a good idea to do this before reporting them.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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