Facto in a sentence

Functions can sometimes be exercised in practice ( de facto ), as by a de facto government, without having been granted by law; but since "primate" is today a title, not a function, there is no such thing as a "de facto" primate.

While only 3 per cent of same-sex de facto couples are parents, just over 21 per cent of lesbian de facto couples are parents.

After the de facto decriminalization of low-level drug offenses in Baltimore, MD in April 2020, there was a significant reduction in low-level, drug-related arrests overall, with the vast majority (82%) of the decline occurring in the Black community.

AllHipHop.com recently ran into the co-founder/de facto leader of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan at a red carpet Urbanworld Film Festival premiere.

And so, it's very much about her mode of operating as a de facto leader of the family now with this very strange creature as part of her life, her child, but who they also know.

Beijing claims the de facto independent island as part of China and strongly opposes international recognition of Taiwan as an independent country.

Biden warmly greeted Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman, after they appeared together along with several other leaders at the Group of 20 summit Saturday in New Delhi.

Brussels hosted the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia on Monday, because the European Union ramped up strain on the long-time bitter foes to iron out a pathway for an settlement that might result in “de-facto” normalisation of ties.

Businesses making such investments shouldn’t also have to give the government a de facto interest-free loan, especially in a high interest rate environment.

But Hamas’s leaders desperately want to recover the de facto veto that Palestinians once had on the concessions other Arabs make to Israel, and this is the only way they might get it.

But he shifted that formula to now give only 90 cents to the campaign and 10 cents to the PAC, which has served as a sort of de facto legal fund.

But it has simultaneously forged ahead with events intended to highlight de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 reform agenda, notably a major investment forum, Riyadh fashion week and a heavyweight boxing bout.

C-18 was a domestic propaganda deferred funding bill, that was aiming to move parts of the funding from government budget and toward the people via de facto taxing facebook.

De facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry in December 2022 announced a “High Transition Council” set up to arrange for elections.

Following Ned and Robb's deaths, Jon becomes the show's new de-facto protagonist.

Graham’s meeting with the crown prince is reflective of the uneasy accommodation the US government has made with the de facto Saudi leader following Khashoggi’s murder.

Graphics processing units are becoming the de-facto chips for running AI-related workloads.

Haiti's de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was not elected to the role but will nonetheless participate in the Nassau meetings, has asked for foreign military intervention — and the United States has previously suggested that Canada could lead one.

Here’s your de facto American League Championship Series.

His amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill to end the de facto ban had been signed by dozens of backbench Conservatives, including ex-prime minister Liz Truss and several other former ministers.