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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 • Feb. 27, 2026

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 • Feb. 15, 2026

They by all accounts had a pretty chummy relationship.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

Hutton was by all accounts a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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