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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]



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“TPU is by all accounts a solid alternative, and one that has meaningfully contributed to several key models.”

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By all accounts, they were wrong.

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Peggy Jo Tallas was, by all accounts, the classic good-hearted Texas woman.

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Not even Vivaldi, by all accounts a fair and compassionate man, would have wanted this.

The decline isn’t necessarily a rebuke to Furner, who by all accounts is well regarded by Wall Street.

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