all to the good
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From Paramount’s vantage point, this coverage was all to the good, as my colleague Meg James reported, because it all tended to favor the deal and sound a caution about a non-deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
If this panic causes people to save more, and invest more sensibly, that’s all to the good.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Even the “basic jitteriness” he identified in his own letter-writing is actually all to the good; they have the repleteness of his fiction, the springy, unexpected notice of the smallest particulars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
That was all to the good, as was most of the coverage.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023
In one way that is all to the good, for Edamer is tasty—but in another way it is vile, because the fat red balls have long been a sign of a bad time coming.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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