by/from all accounts

idiom

: according to all of the different descriptions of something

By all accounts, the band put on a great show.

She was, by all accounts, good at her job.

They seemed, from all accounts, to have a happy marriage.

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The director had a charmed and normal childhood, by all accounts; he was born in Montana but moved all over the country as a kid, living in Washington, North Carolina, Idaho, and Virginia at various points. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025 This is, by all accounts, a weak QB class and the Raiders desperately need a legit rebuild. —

Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 Donald Trump had tea in the White House and then rode to the Capitol in a limo with a man who, by all accounts, sees Trump as an authoritarian threat to Constitutional ideals. —

David Mastio, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025 The app should, by all accounts, be inaccessible to Americans. —

David Phelan, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for by/from all accounts

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