by all accounts

1. Also, according to all accounts. From all reports available, from what everyone is saying. For example, By all accounts the party was a great success, or They spent a fortune on their cruise, according to all accounts. These phrases rely on account in the sense of “a particular report or description of some event.” [Late 1700s]

Example Sentences

Most economists under the sun criticized the move to fill a nonpartisan government job to compile and release data with, by all accounts, a baffling ding-dong.

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By all accounts, the team was masterful in its negotiations with Chelsea and it was rewarded with a record-breaking transfer fee.

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By all accounts Venkatesham's empathetic and kind-natured persona came as a major comfort to Arsenal employees from top to bottom of the club.

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By all accounts, Liverpool's dealings with Palace over Christian Benteke's move from Merseyside to London six months earlier was not straight forward either.

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Just as her generation has, by all accounts, sobered up and gone sexless, Lorde returned this year with a defiant album about the giddy rush of partying and the frightening ramifications of a body in search of pleasure.

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