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by all accounts

Idioms

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

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They by all accounts had a pretty chummy relationship.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

He was, by all accounts, acting as a Good Samaritan, trying to break up the fight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

Hillquit ran a strong campaign under the unique conditions of that world-historical year, by all accounts, winning almost 150,000 votes across a fractious range of communities who were generally understood to be at odds.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

All of us, for example, are descended at some point from hunter- gatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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