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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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When the hearing resumed, what followed was, by all accounts, a catastrophic embarrassment for the committee — one entirely of its own making.

From Salon

By all accounts, Jamerson is a dream player, one filled with resilience and gratitude.

From Los Angeles Times

Born at home and raised in a mixed Hindu-Muslim neighbourhood shaped by quiet hardship, Dipu was, by all accounts, a private man with few friends.

From BBC

By all accounts, he has settled into life on Merseyside rapidly, moving into the house that was previously occupied by Luis Diaz.

From BBC

They by all accounts had a pretty chummy relationship.

From Slate

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