by all accounts

Idioms  

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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Example Sentences

Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

His relationship with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be crucial to pulling this transition off, and by all accounts they get along well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The two-week truce is by all accounts fragile, and there is little evidence that the critical Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil typically passes, has reopened.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

The first integrity alert, by all accounts, did not come until June 2025 — more than two years into the alleged scheme — and was triggered by suspicious bets on a teammate, not Clase.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Each of them, by all accounts, makes only enough of its own materials to get along on, and the rest must come from me.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas