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]

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

by all accounts

Even though she was, by all accounts, struggling to do so.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

The message that Washington will no longer accept business-as-usual was a sharp warning for Sheinbaum, a long-time academic and U.S.-educated scientist who, by all accounts, is free from the taint of corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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

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